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50 word matches found for '星' using reading 'ぼし'

noun

1. shooting star; falling star; meteor (see also: 流星; astronomy, etc. term)

2. star (white patch on the forehead of a horse) (see also: 星月)

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noun

1. dazzling victory

2. win of a rank-and-file wrestler over the grand champion (sumo term)

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noun

1. white circle; white star

2. victory mark (sumo term)

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Most common form: 本ボシ

noun

real culprit (police slang) (slang)

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noun

1. black spot; black dot; bull's-eye

2. failure mark (sumo term)

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noun

(mark indicating) a win

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noun

objective; aim; mark

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とみて

noun

Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 虚)

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noun

upstart; mushroom millionaire

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うるき

Most common form: 女宿

noun

Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 女; astronomy, etc. term)

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いちばんぼし

noun

the first star to appear in the evening

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noun

evening star; morning star

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たたら

noun

Chinese "Bond" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 婁)

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noun

mark indicating a defeat

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なまめ

noun

Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 壁; astronomy, etc. term)

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なかごぼし

Most common form: 心宿

noun

Chinese "Heart" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 心; astronomy, etc. term)

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はつい

noun

Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 室; astronomy, etc. term)

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からすきぼし

Most common form: 参宿

noun

Chinese "Three Stars" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 参; obscure term)

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あめふりぼし

noun

Chinese "Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 畢)

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いなみぼし

Most common form: 牛宿

noun

Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 牛; astronomy, etc. term)

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とも

noun

Chinese "root" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 二十八宿, 氐; astronomy, etc. term)

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noun

wrestlers with the same win-loss record at the end of a tournament (sumo term)

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だいきんぼし

noun

most spectacular victory; win of rank-and-file wrestler over the truly great grand champion (sumo term)

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にばんぼし

noun

second star of the evening

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く

expression, 'ku' godan verb

to figure out; to get an idea

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noun

Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star (see also: シリウス; astronomy, etc. term)

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noun

1. the Big Dipper; the Plough; the Plow (see also: 北斗七星; astronomy, etc. term)

2. family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) (see also: 七曜)

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noun

bull's-eye; mark

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ちりこ

Most common form: 張星

noun

Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 張; astronomy, etc. term)

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ぬりこ

noun

Chinese "Willow" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 柳)

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Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.

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