Keyword
hat
Info
FrequencyTop 1500-1600
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig436
Readings
ぼう
(96%)
(3%)
Composed of
piece of fabric
dare
Mnemonic

I dare you to wear that piece of fabric on your head as if it were a hat.

Used in vocabulary (87 in total)
hat; cap
to take off one's hat
removing one's hat; admiring someone greatly; "taking off one's hat" to someone
eboshi; black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan
knitted hat; woollen hat
regulation cap; school cap
three-cornered hat; tricorne
to take off one's hat
hat shop; hat store; hatter; hatmaker
military cap
ski mask; balaclava
red cap; (railway) porter; redcap
flat cap; cloth cap; newsboy cap; (hunting) cap
felt hat; fedora; trilby
three-cornered hat; tricorne
bride's silk floss headdress; clumps of snow (on tree branches, stones, etc.)
swimming or bathing cap
mitral valve; bicuspid valve
mortarboard; trencher; (square) academic cap formerly worn by Japanese university students
flat cap; cloth cap; newsboy cap; (hunting) cap
hat rack; hat stand; hat peg
bare-headed; uncovered
boater; (flat) straw hat
aviation cap; flying helmet
felt hat; fedora; trilby
field cap (used by Japanese troops in WWII)
safety helmet; crash helmet; hard hat
hat rack; hat stand; hat peg
summer hat; straw hat
hat rack; hat stand; hat peg
arctic cap; watch cap
putting on one's hat
bathing cap; swimcap
fez; tarboosh
felt hat; fedora; trilby
hat worn by kindergarten or primary school pupils walking to school
felt hat; fedora; trilby
boater; (flat) straw hat
ceremonial hat
shabby clothes and an old hat
bowler hat; felt hat
kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa); Japanese flowering dogwood
soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward)
hard hat; safety helmet
even an eccentric head of family must be obeyed
cap of a uniform
strange thing; eccentric taste; (lit.) red eboshi
Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis)
bowler hat; felt hat
turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix); touraco; loerie; lourie
creased eboshi hat
black silk or paper triangle worn over the forehead (usu. worn by children)
red and white reversible cap
fur hat; wool hat
man-of-war fish (Nomeus gronovii)
Inversidens brandti (species of freshwater mussel)
Examples (189 in total)
Where are your hats?
Your hat matches your dress marvellously.
Your hat is similar to mine.