noun:

• bonze; monk
• monk's dwelling ［ぼう］
• boy; sonny - vocative
• I; me ［ぼう］ - used by male children

suffix:

• little ［ぼう］ - after name; familiar form of address - familiar language
• person who is ... ［ぼう］ - often preceded by ん

noun:

• chocolate given by a boy to a girl on Valentine's day - obscure term

noun:

• leading a horse, cow, etc.
• groom; horse boy
• hors d'oeuvre; appetizer; side dish

noun:

• alumnus (alumnae); graduate; old boy (girl)
• former member of an organization
• former inhabitant (country, region, etc.)

interjection:

• Aah!; Ooh!; Oh No!; Oh Boy!; expression of despair, resignation, boredom, disgust, etc. ➜ 嗚呼【ああ】

interjection:

• Aaah!; Oooh!; Oh No!; Oh Boy!; expression of despair, resignation, boredom, disgust, etc. ➜ 嗚呼【ああ】

noun:

• daddy's girl; daddy's boy; child strongly attached to its father

noun:

• Buddhist priest; bonze
• close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head
• boy; sonny; lad - familiar language - derogatory term
• not catching anything (in fishing) ➜ お凸【おでこ】

noun:

• errand; mission; going as envoy - polite language ➜ 使い【つかい】
• messenger; bearer; errand boy; errand girl - polite language
• familiar spirit - polite language - honorific language

noun:

• boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes
• hairstyle inspired by such a doll (esp. for female children) (Edo period)

expression:

• you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught [literal] - proverb

expression:

• you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught) [literal] - proverb - abbreviation ➜ 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む【もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ】

noun:

• errand; mission; going as envoy ➜ 使いにやる
• messenger; bearer; errand boy; errand girl
• familiar spirit ➜ 使い魔

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• use; usage; user; trainer; tamer; charmer - often read as づかい when used as a suffix ➜ 魔法使い

expression / godan ~う verb:

• (for a nobleman) to bestow one of the kanji in his name upon someone (e.g. meritorious retainer, boy coming of age, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor

noun / ~する noun:

• having deep knowledge of; being expert in; being well versed in; being conversant with
• (a boy's) first ejaculation; semenarche

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】

noun:

• hard-liners; diehards; hawks

noun / adjectival noun:

• (young) man with traditionally masculine interests; tough boy; man's man

noun:

• hard news; reporter who covers political and economic affairs

noun / adjectival noun:

• strait-laced type (with respect to relationships)

noun:

• bullish traders

noun:

• Kintaro; hero boy of Japanese folklore, who befriended animals and had supernatural strength - childhood name of late-Heian warrior Sakata no Kintoki
• Kintaro doll (usu. having a plump red face, carrying an axe, and wearing a red apron)
• diamond-shaped apron

noun:

• child (esp. a boy)
• viscount ➜ 子爵
• master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius) - honorific language
• philosophy (branch of Chinese literature); non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings ➜ 諸子百家
• you (of one's equals) - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing...)

noun:

• servant; valet; footman
• someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family - archaism
• low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Rituryo system) - archaism
• ox-tender for oxcarts; horse boy - archaism
• honorary junior official of the Imperial Household Department's Board of Ceremonies involved in miscellaneous duties related to ceremonies ➜ 宮内省