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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

see styles
zhǒu
    zhou3
chou
 houki / hoki
    ほうき
broom
(noun/participle) (kana only) broom


see styles
zhǒu
    zhou3
chou
 houki / hoki
    ほうき
variant of [zhou3]
(noun/participle) (kana only) broom; (surname) Houki

帚星

see styles
 houkiboshi / hokiboshi
    ほうきぼし
(astron) comet

帚木

see styles
 hahakigi
    ははきぎ
(surname) Hahakigi

掃帚


扫帚

see styles
sào zhou
    sao4 zhou5
sao chou
broom

炊帚

see styles
chuī zhou
    chui1 zhou5
ch`ui chou
    chui chou
pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips

玉帚

see styles
 tamabahaki
    たまばはき
    tamahahaki
    たまははき
(1) broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year); (2) plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia); (3) liquor; alcohol; sake

笤帚

see styles
tiáo zhou
    tiao2 zhou5
t`iao chou
    tiao chou
whisk broom; small broom; CL:把[ba3]

筅帚

see styles
xiǎn zhǒu
    xian3 zhou3
hsien chou
(dialect) pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips

掃帚星


扫帚星

see styles
sào zhou xīng
    sao4 zhou5 xing1
sao chou hsing
comet; person who brings bad luck; jinx

帚木蓬生

see styles
 hahakigihousei / hahakigihose
    ははきぎほうせい
(person) Hahakigi Housei (1947-)

敝帚千金

see styles
bì zhǒu qiān jīn
    bi4 zhou3 qian1 jin1
pi chou ch`ien chin
    pi chou chien chin
lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value; I wouldn't be parted with it for anything.

敝帚自珍

see styles
bì zhǒu zì zhēn
    bi4 zhou3 zi4 zhen1
pi chou tzu chen
to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to something because it is one's own; a sentimental attachment

Variations:
箒(P)

see styles
 houki / hoki
    ほうき
(kana only) broom

Variations:
ほうき星
箒星
帚星

see styles
 houkiboshi / hokiboshi
    ほうきぼし
{astron} (See 彗星・すいせい) comet

Variations:
玉箒
玉帚
玉ははき
玉ばはき

see styles
 tamahahaki(玉箒, 玉, 玉hahaki); tamabahaki(玉箒, 玉, 玉bahaki)
    たまははき(玉箒, 玉帚, 玉ははき); たまばはき(玉箒, 玉帚, 玉ばはき)
(1) broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year); (2) (See 箒草) plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia); (3) liquor; alcohol; sake

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 16 results for "帚" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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