坊主
Meanings
Noun
1. Buddhist priest; bonze (ぼんず is dialectal)
2. close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head
4. not catching anything; getting skunked
5. the August 20-point card
Other readings
Kanji used
Pitch accent
ぼうず
Used in vocabulary
丸坊主
close-cropped head; shaven head; being treeless (of a mountain, hill, etc.); being leafless (of a tree, shrub, etc.); being bald; being bare
Noun
海坊主
umibōzu; sea yōkai, resembling a huge bald-headed black figure; sea monster; sea goblin; green turtle
Noun
てるてる坊主
paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)
Noun