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Japanese
Affix
ぼう • (bō)
- 氓: (on'yomi, only used in compounds) people, subjects
Noun
ぼう • (bō)
- 暮雨: rain in the evening
- 坊: a boy; a bonze, a Buddhist monk
- 帽: a hat
- 房: a room, particularly a small room on the side of a larger hall; a monastery
- 暴: violence; illegality; unreasonableness
- 望: the full moon; the 15th day of the month in the lunar calendar; one method of diagnosis in Chinese medicine
- 某: an undisclosed something, someone or somewhere
- 棒: a bar or staff (as of wood or metal)
- 貌: a shape or form; one's complexion; appearance
Pronoun
ぼう • (bou)
- 某: (obsolete) I; me. (Used by samurai.)
Proper noun
ぼう • (Bō)
- 昴: one of the 28 traditional Japanese constellations, the Pleiades
Verb
ぼう • (bou) ←ぼふ (bofu)?transitive godan (stem ぼい (boi), past ぼった (botta))
- 追う: to follow, to chase