Meaning of こう in Japanese
Definition of こう
- (n) rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
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grasshopper; locust (of family Catantopidae)
イナゴが大群をなしてやってきた。
Locusts came in big swarms.
- (n) season; weather
- (n) efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success
- (n) filial piety
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(n) good luck; fortune; happiness
幸にも授業に間に合った。
Fortunately, I made it to the class. - harvest; yield
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(n) 10^32; hundred nonillion (American); (obs) hundred quintillion (British)
彼はその浅い溝を飛び越えた。
He leaped over the shallow ditch.
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(n) manuscript; version; draft
彼は最終稿に忙しく取り組んでいる。
He is busy with the final draft.
- (n) 7th in rank; seventh sign of the Chinese calendar
- (n) carapace; shell
- 1st in rank; grade A
- instep; back of hand
- the A party (e.g. in a contract); the first party
- (n) box
- car (of a train, etc.)
- shamisen case; shamisen
- man who carries a geisha's shamisen
- receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces)
- (n) incense
- (pref) anti-
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(suf) harbour
その船はいま港にある。
The ship is now in the harbor.
- (n) (biological) class
- (n) large river (esp. the Yangtze)
- Lake Biwa
- (n) yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram)
- (n) tribute
- (n) one-fifth of the night (approx. 2 hours)
- (n) merit; success; meritorious deed
- achievement; accumulated experience
- (n-suf) (factory) worker
- (pref) good
- (n) invasion; invader
- (n) hardness
- (n) death (of a nobleman, etc.)