ほう
Meanings
Noun
1. district; region; area; locality
2. the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area
3. civilian society
Imperial Japanese Army jargon
Kanji used
ground
way
Pitch accent
ほう
Top 2900
Composed of
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
Used in vocabulary (65 in total)
provincial city; provincial town; suburban city; regional towns and cities
district court; local court
Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
Tōhoku region (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku region
local authority; local government; locality; local self-governing body; municipality
local newspaper
Kyushu region (sometimes incl. the Nansei Islands)
Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane)
local (governmental) autonomy
Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)
local government employee; local civil servant
local public body; local government
Tokai region of Honshu (incl. Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and southern Gifu prefectures)
local broadcast station
Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
local color; local colour
Kansai region (center-west area of Japan comprising Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures)
San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)
Arctic region; north polar region
geographical name; local name
decentralization of power; decentralisation of power
District Public Prosecutor's Office
person from the provinces; person living outside major metropolitan areas
Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
local tax; council tax
countryside revitalisation (revitalization)
municipal bond; local bond
tax allocated to local governments
local government finance
Kōshin'etsu region (including Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures); Koshinetsu
local history
local election; regional elections
national rural police (1947-1954)
local rule; house rule
prefectural constituency
San-you region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures)
municipally operated horse racing
Local Government Finance Act
provincial tournament, held outside Tokyo
regional administrator; local government official
local administrative organ; local government
local economy; local financial affairs
Antarctic region; south polar region
local card game (esp. hanafuda)
regional wholesale market; local wholesale market
regional administrator; local government official
Examples (25 in total)
Legends of vampires flourish in the Balkans.
This district forms a basin.
A cold wave hit this district.