EntryCommonWaniKani 22
  1. Noun

    Buddhist priest; bonze

    ぼんず is dialectal

  2. close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head

  3. boy; sonny; lad

    Familiar languageDerogatory

  4. not catching anything; getting skunked

    Fishingsee おでこ

  5. the August 20-point card

    Hanafudasee 花札

Also written 房主【ぼうず】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

boy, priest's residence, priest

On
ボウボッ
Strokes
7
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1832 of 2500
Radical
earth
WaniKani
Level 22

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
1-3-4SKIP code
3b4.1The Kanji Dictionary
4012.7Four corner code
1445deroo
574aUnicode hex code
1-43-23JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1062Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
986New Nelson (John Haig)
233New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
274Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
171Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
205Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
492Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
531Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1203A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
389Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1676Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
4924Morohashi
1807A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1858Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2014Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
430Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1109Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
782Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
371Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
503Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
fang1, fang2Pinyin reading
bangKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
22WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

lord, chief, master, main thing, principal

Kun
ぬしおもあるじ
On
シュシュウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N4
Frequency
95 of 2500
Radical
dot
WaniKani
Level 4

Built from

Used in names as

かずもん

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-1-4, 2-2-3, 4-5-2SKIP code
4f1.1The Kanji Dictionary
0010.4Four corner code
472deroo
4e3bUnicode hex code
1-28-71JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
285Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
38New Nelson (John Haig)
1938New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2437Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1231Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1696Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
266Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
284Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
91A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
196Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
49Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
100Morohashi
299A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
155Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
155Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237sakade
106Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
315henshall3
252Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
34crowley
70Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.10busy_people
19Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
272Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhu3Pinyin reading
juKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
4WaniKani level