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Keyword
cluster
  • tassel
  • tuft
  • fringe
  • bunch
  • lock (hair)
  • segment (orange)
  • house
  • room
Frequency
#808
Strokes
8
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
1159
Readings
ボウ92%
ふさ8%
Mnemonic
Open the door and grapes block the way: a huge purple cluster dangles from the vine over the hallway like a beaded curtain.
Stroke order
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Used in vocabulary
官かん房ぼう長ちょう官かん
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
Noun
房ふさ
tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; tassel; bunch (of grapes, bananas, etc.); cluster (of flowers); segment (of a tangerine, etc.); section
Noun
官かん房ぼう
government secretariat
Noun
工こう房ぼう
workshop; studio; atelier
Noun
書しょ房ぼう
study; library; bookstore; bookshop; publishing company
Noun
女にょう房ぼう
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace
Noun
冷れい房ぼう
air conditioning; air cooling
Noun
暖だん房ぼう
(indoor) heating
Noun
女にょう房ぼう役やく
assistant; right-hand man; subordinate; wifely role; catcher
Noun
厨ちゅう房ぼう
kitchen; galley
Noun
乳ち房ぶさ
breast; udder
Noun
押おしかけ女にょう房ぼう
woman who forced her husband into marriage
Noun
冷れい暖だん房ぼう
air conditioning and heating
Noun
花はな房ぶさ
calyx; corolla
Noun
房ぼう
chamber; room; cell (prison); atrium; home of a monk; monk; Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
Noun
独どく房ぼう
single-person cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell
Noun
安房あわ
Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
Noun
茶さ房ぼう
teahouse; coffee shop
Noun