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Entry

  1. Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb

    embezzlement; misappropriation; pocketing; stealing

    Usually written using kana alone

    ネコババ職員はいつかはバレて職を失う。
    Clerks with sticky fingers won't keep their jobs for long.

  2. Noun, Suru verb

    covering up wrongdoings and feigning ignorance

Also written 猫糞【ねこばば】、猫婆【ねこばば】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
猫
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cat

Kun
ねこ
On
ビョウ
Strokes
11
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N3
Frequency
1702 of 2500
Radical
犬 dog
WaniKani
Level 15

Built from

田犯艾
Words starting with 猫Words ending in 猫Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
1-3-8SKIP code
3g8.5The Kanji Dictionary
4426.0Four corner code
2976deroo
732bUnicode hex code
1-39-13JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2893Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3586New Nelson (John Haig)
535New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
651Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
391Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
488Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
244Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
259Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1763A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1304Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
20535XMorohashi
1742A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1470Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1567Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
730Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1461Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1410Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1304Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
250Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
mao1, mao2Pinyin reading
myoKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
15WaniKani level