First opened Sunday, August 26, 2007
坊さん
ぼうさん
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Buddhist priest, monk
Bōsan is from お坊さん (obōsan).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 坊
In a sentence
あの偉い坊さんを見ろよ。
Look at the big shot.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From お坊(ぼう)さん (obōsan).”
Source: Wiktionary: 坊さん (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.