Illustration: In a Japanese home after a family bean-throwing celebration, roasted beans lie in widely separated places throughout the living room. Some sit on the sofa, others beneath the low table, inside a slipper, along the window track and on top of the television stand.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

方ほう々ぼう

houbou

here and there, all over

方々 can also be read かたがた, meaning people. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 方方ほうぼうでフラミンゴを見みかけます。

    I see flamingos everywhere.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. そのような素朴そぼくな風景ふうけいも方々ほうぼうで見みられたが、いずれも1980年代以降ねんだいいこうは廃すたれつつある。

    Such rustic sights were found everywhere in the past, but they have been disappearing since the 1980s.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 今上帝きんじょうていの子この中なかで一番いちばんの美貌びぼうで、方々ほうぼうから婿むこにとの誘さそいがかかった。

    He was the most handsome of the reigning emperor’s sons, and proposals to take him as a son-in-law came from all over.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 方々

  • 方direction; personOnホウKunかた

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