Illustration: At a Japanese home's New Year display, a child places a ceramic rabbit on a small raised stand. Eleven companion figurines form a curved procession around it: rat, ox, tiger, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

卯う

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the Rabbit of the Chinese zodiac

ぼう is an uncommon alternative reading. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 来年らいねんは卯う年どしだ。

    Next year is the year of the rabbit.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 名なは生年せいねんが乙きのと卯うであることにちなむ。

    His name, meaning "Yin Wood Rabbit," is associated with the year he was born in the Chinese sexagenary cycle.

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

  3. 来年らいねんは卯う年どしです。

    Next year is the year of the rabbit.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 卯

  • 卯sign of the hare or rabbit; fourth sign of Chinese zodiacOnボウ・モウKunう

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