坊

Common noun

bonze; monk

ぼう only; Common noun

monk's dwelling

Common noun

boy; son; sonny

ぼう only; Common noun; Used by male children

I; me

ぼう only; Familiar; Suffix; After name; familiar form of address

little

ぼう only; Suffix; Often preceded by ん

person who is ...

ぼんず is dialectal

Buddhist priest; bonze

close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head

Familiar; Derogatory

boy; sonny; lad

Fishing

not catching anything; getting skunked

Hanafuda

the August 20-point card

Familiar

boy; son; child

Derogatory

mere boy; stripling; greenhorn

Honorific

(another's) son; boy; young master

green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

Familiar; Honorific

Buddhist priest; monk

Familiar

boy

close-cropped hair; shaven head

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Botchan (1906 novel by Natsume Sōseki)

monk; priest

Familiar

boy

Honorific

(another's) son; boy; young master

green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

young gentleman; boy

bowl cut; mushroom cut

closely cropped hair

all over town

Proverb

if you dislike someone, you will end up hating everything he stands for; hate a priest, and you will hate his very vestments

Card games

bozu mekuri; simple card game played with the 100 picture cards of a hyakunin isshu deck

Proverb

a monk's earnings are pure profit (due to needing no capital and having no expenses)

monk's quarters

overly pious; sanctimonious; priestly; monkish

tatami mat without a "heri" edge

master of the priests quarters

Sicyopterus japonicus (species of goby)

female or male prostitute serving a monk; luring a monk into depredation

Food, cooking

Botchan dango; tricolor dango on a skewer (matcha, egg yolk, and red bean paste)

baby; infant