ホウ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. law; act; principle
2. method
3. mood
4. dharma; law
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (661 in total)
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
lawlessness; injustice; wrong; outrageous; lawless; disorderly
legal principle
laws and ordinances; acts (of parliament, congress, etc.)
Buddhist priest; bonze; layman dressed like a priest; person
directions; rules of use
law; jurisprudence
manufacturing method; recipe; formula
dialectic; dialectics
unlawful; illegal; unreasonable; outrageous; unjust
horse gait; way of walking (e.g. in martial arts, etc.)
farming methods
Prohibition Law
legislation; laws
mysteries; excellent methods; marvelous law of Buddha; Saddharma; Lotus Sutra; teachings of the Lotus Sutra
narration
religious persecution
antitrust law; Antitrust Act
industry law; law regulating a certain industry; (arch.) work one is obligated to carry out
manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
vestment; priest's robe
Pope; Buddha
coping method; approach; how to deal with (problem, etc.)
method of treatment; cure; remedy
technique
art of war; strategy; tactics
art of war; strategy; tactics
esoteric Buddhist ritual where incantations are chanted; magic
bill (law); measure
exorbitant; outrageous; ridiculous; absurd; excessive; inordinate
(process of) elimination
legal; lawful; legitimate
solution; way out
art of cooking; cookery; cuisine
secret method; secret process; secret formula; esoteric rituals (in Shingon Buddhism)
power of Buddhism
forensic medicine; forensic pathology; medical jurisprudence; legal medicine
Buddhist memorial service
highest rank among priests; mountain ascetic monk; signs that distinguish Buddhist teachings from other faiths; title given to a great physician or painter
(key to) solution
code of law; body of law
surefire way to win
etiquette; courtesy; manners
law department; law school
heresy; heretical teachings; black magic
criminal law; penal code
Buddhist memorial service
corporate body; corporation; (legal) person; (juridical) person
business practice; business method; commerce; commercial law
practising law; legal processes in running a country; method; way; magic
international law; law of nations
how to use (something); usage instructions; directions (for usage); use; usage
directions; instructions; usage method
extraterritoriality
Swords and Firearms Control Law (1958)
religious exultation; ecstasy
breathing techniques; breath control
usage; way to use; utilization
calendar making
perspective
method of construction
Labor Standards Act
legislation; development of laws
running style
fixed rule; usual way; usual method
(Japanese) Copyright Act
diction; grammar; syntax; usage; wording
change in the law; legal reform
Peace Preservation Act (1925)
induction; inductive method
bad law; (arch.) evil ways; (arch.) evil way of doing things
law department; law school
protection law; shield law; law for the protection of something
notation
law enforcement
negative statute; law against something
dharmata (dharma nature, the true nature of all manifest phenomena)
expression method; how to express oneself; phrasing
way of thinking
universe; realm of thought; underlying principle of reality; manifestation of true thusness
playing (instrument); playing method; touch
important law; fundamental law
(Japanese) Pharmaceutical Affairs Law
clerical appearance; appearance of a priest; teachings of Buddha; condition of the universe at creation; in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha
high priest
teaching method
robes of a judge or lawyer or priest
batting form
art of drawing and painting
fundamental law; basic (organic) law
ritual implements
National Mobilization Law (1938)
Bachelor of Laws
true dharma; true teachings of Buddha; age of the true law (one of the three ages of Buddhism)
the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine
law and politics; justice administration
Buddhist sermon
state law; state statute
attacking method; attacking strategy
legal profession; judicial officer; lawyer; attorney
method of operation; operating procedure
nomenclature
method of manipulating; management method; puppeteering
way of throwing (esp. in baseball); throwing technique; pitching technique
archery
convenient; useful; handy; helpful
Personal Information Protection Law (2003)
vocalization; vocalisation
art of living; way of life
philosophy of law
conventions to be followed in composing Japanese poetry; phraseology; diction; rules of grammar and syntax when reading kanbun in Japanese
precautionary measures
federal law; federal legislation
Buddhist sermon
text of the law
binary number system; base-2
rule; rite
classification system; classification method
teaching methodology; pedagogy
dichotomy
practice of Buddhism; Buddhist training
metric system
all existing things (formed and formless)
antitrust law; Antitrust Act
existing law; existing laws; laws in force
special law
inversion of the word order in a sentence; anastrophe
categorical imperative
medical practitioner's law
anti-... law
observance of the Buddha's teachings
constitutional government
Lamaze technique
taxation law
counterpoint
regulation; legislation
manipulation techniques (e.g. puppets); handling techniques
legal structure; legal system; jurisprudence
decimal system
refining process
Buddhist teachings; Buddhist scriptures; Dharmakara; Amitabha Buddha in a pre-enlightenment incarnation
legal interpretation; statutory interpretation
method of measurement
legal system
Minister of Justice
teachings of Buddha; teaching method; way of teaching
legal order
priest's name or posthumous Buddhist name
method of examination or inspection
Bankruptcy Act
doctrinal discussion; jurisprudence
Criminal Procedure Code
family code
beauty regimen; beauty treatment; cosmetic technique
Road Traffic Act
municipal (civic) law; domestic law; national law
Corporate Rehabilitation Law
way of learning; way of studying; way of mastering
special measures law
press law; publication law
(meshes of) the law; net of the law; justice
reductio ad absurdum
Hosso sect of Buddhism (Japanese equivalent of the Chinese Faxiang sect)
Fire Services Act; fire laws
notation; orthography; writing system; representation
Child Welfare Act
pleasures of a pious life; entertainment for or dedicated to a deity or Buddha; pastime; entertainment; free admission
election laws
meditation method; contemplation technique
Investment Law; Capital Subscription Law
rule of law
regeneration process; rehabilitation method; recovery
ceremony; manners
Minor Offenses Act
preaching place
(meshes of) the law; net of the law; justice
(method of) deduction
natural law
sampling (i.e. as a survey method)
Attorneys-at-Law Act; Lawyer Act
means of diagnosis
lawyer; legalism (school of Chinese philosophy)
Gender Equality In Employment Act
common law; customary law (in international law)
subjunctive mood
public law
trigonometry
labor law; labour law
Self-Defense Forces Act
Civil Aeronautics Law; Aviation Law
constitutional state
Civil Rights Act (US)
the Radio Law
sound of sutra chanting
perspective drawing; (use of) perspective
personification
cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR
same law; the (said) law; same method; the (said) method
word usage; terminology
Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
legal education
Labor Standards Act
old law; old method
differentiation
English law; British law; British method; British style
medicolegal autopsy; forensic autopsy
royal decree
drawing; draftsmanship; draughtsmanship; projection
National Public Service Act
contraceptive method or measures
good method
Buddhist sermon
lecture hall of a temple (esp. Zen)
staining method; staining techniques
marriage laws
direct method; indicative mood
administrative law
written law; statutory law
copybook printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy
dialectic; dialectics
(a) source of law
Corporation Tax Act
penmanship; calligraphy
addition
(historical) regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order
Political Funds Control Law
Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations; Law for Preventing Unjustifiable Extra or Unexpected Benefit and Misleading Representation
contract law; law of contract
cryptography
equality before the law; equality under the law
corporation law; company law
Securities and Exchange Act
revised law
sociology of law
Japanese Nationality Act
Anti-Organized Crime Law (1991)
legal personality; juridical personality; corporate status; non-person legal entity
Navigation Acts (regulations of colonial trade in 17th century England)
just law; proper method; the true teachings of Buddha; Period of the True Law
Roman law
great teachings (of the Buddha); teachings of the Mahayana; most important ritual (in esoteric Buddhism)
immigration law
foreign law
Islamic law; Sharia law
hemostatic method; styptic treatment; stanching
private law
punctuation rules
Cabinet Act
law reform proposal; law reform bill
Medical Care Act
Unauthorized Computer Access Law (2000); Law Banning Illegal Access
time convention; way of dividing day into hours; hour system
child-rearing practice
(Japanese) Civil Proceedings Act (1890, revised in 1926)
Livelihood Protection Law
Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act
method of writing; syntax
legal norm; legal standard
case method; case study method
spelling rules; orthography
rhythm method (for conceiving); calendar method
special measures law
Criminal Procedure Code
nursing art
numeration system; number representation system
Family Registration Law
jurisprudence
Fisheries Act
law of harmony
grammatical rule allowing the usage of the continuative form as a conjunction
Preventive Vaccination Law
Local Autonomy Law (1947)
investigative approach; research method; survey method
Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act
forensic science
dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit
Monte Carlo method
versification
artificial respiration technique
(Japanese) Labor Union Law
light of Buddhism
rules concerning application of laws
abridged notation
economic law
integration
legal history (studies)
dharma seat (seat from which one gives Buddhist sermons); Buddhist religious service
hypothetical imperative
Public Office Election Law
corporate name
Military Service Law (1927-1945)
Act on Specified Commercial Transactions
Local Public Service Act
local subsidiary
Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act
etiquette; social code
orthography
imperative mood
projective technique
law of the sea; maritime law
environmental laws
Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act
hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex
Public Nursing Care Insurance Law (1997)
writing into law; codification; enacting
statute law
calendar era; year numbering system used by a calendar
Haber process (for producing ammonia)
independent administrative corporation (institution, agency); German law
politics and law; political science and law; way of governing
Infectious Disease Act
division
multiplication
orthography
law full of loopholes; toothless law
(Japanese) Broadcast Act
Freedom of Information Law; Freedom of Information Act (various countries); FOIA
(knowledge of) first-aid
faculty of law and literature
Agricultural Land Act
Anglo-American law
Temporary Staffing Services Law
civil law; continental law
stamp duty law
statistics law; the laws of statistics
binomial nomenclature
imperial units; yard-pound units
a law is a law, however undesirable it may be
Invasive Alien Species Act (2004)
benefit and protection of the law; interests protected by law; legal benefit
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
conditional mood
Local Government Finance Act
Large-scale Retail Stores Law
right triumphs over wrong, law triumphs over right, power triumphs over law, heaven triumphs over power; no man can oppose the divine
Banking Law; Bank of Japan Act (1981)
age determination method; dating technique
climax (rhetoric); gradation
Electricity Business Act
Inheritance Tax Act
dollar-cost averaging
musical notation
civil law
main laws
normal vector
Doctor of Laws; LLD
allocation (accounting)
(method of) projection
sign language
nitrogen fixation (method)
(Japanese) Natural Conservation Law (1972)
(Japanese) Natural Conservation Law (1972)
(Japanese) Protection of Personal Liberty Law (1948)
procedural law (as opposed to substantive law)
Staple Food Control Act
mood and tense
lipreading
Bayer process
canon law
carbon-14 dating; radiocarbon dating
multiple-choice
magnetic resonance imaging; MRI
Haber-Bosch process (for producing ammonia)
usage (esp. of language)
categorical imperative
categorical imperative
labor relations adjustment law (labour)
Ship Safety Law (1933)
finite element method
access method
critical path method
jurisdiction
international humanitarian law; IHL
international humanitarian law; IHL
industrial standardization law
Act of Uniformity
revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)
(formal) ways of sitting
subjunctive mood
bowing (of a stringed instrument)
Maritime Traffic Safety Act (1973)
Maritime Traffic Safety Act (1973)
suppletion; suppletive
procedural law
therapeutic hypothermia; induced hypothermia
centrifugal separation method; centrifuge process; centrifugation method
interferometry
flotation; flotation method
Road Transport Vehicle Law (1951)
purpose of a law
influence of Buddhism; power of Buddhism
relaxation method
(legally) incorporated educational institution
vitrification (esp. oocyte cryopreservation)
legal maxim
blood collection method; blood sampling
prick test; scarification
Heimlich maneuver; Heimlich manoeuvre
positron emission tomography; PET
Industrial Safety and Health Act
Act on Penal Detention Facilities and the Treatment of Inmates and Detainees
Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Act
Securities and Exchange Act
enzyme-linked immunoSorbent assay (virus detection method); ELISA
laws of heredity
general law
vulcanization; vulcanisation
potential mood
three-color process; three-colour process
statute of limitations
commercial customary law; commercial custom law
sliding scale
artificial incubation (method)
simple-interest method
solar-evaporation process (in salt making)
infinitive mood
unwritten law; common law
common law
open-hearth process
refrigeration
makko-ho (set of four exercises for general health)
the Health Insurance Act
fluoroscopy (method)
law governing rights within families
syncopation
hydroponics
the Measurement Law
the Forest Act
compound interest method
Minimum Wages Act
integration
cuprous ammoniacal process
mood and tense
divisor and dividend
character encoding scheme
Building Access law
amylo process
ammonia soda process
uranium-lead method
sump method
zero method
Delphi technique
ammonium chloride soda process
scientific management
Foreign Exchange Control Law
Foreign Exchange Control Law
diaphragm process
consumer-protection law
Local Tax Law
sonography; ultrasonography
affiliated company accounted for by the equity-method
Government Paperwork Elimination Act (USA)
elderly welfare law
extrapolation method
quadrature; stereometry
determination of a child's sex before birth (e.g. by ultrasound)
electric current sintering
the rules according to which posthumous names are assigned
modal auxiliary verb
potassium-argon dating
nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; NMRI
hypothetical imperative
truth in lending act
anti-money laundering law
computerized tomography; CT; computed tomography
(Japanese) Labor Union Law
rhythm method (method of birth control); calendar method
gravimetric method
boundary element method
secant method
Atomic Bomb Victims' Relief Law (1995)
National Government Organization Act
National School Establishment Law (1949)
use of a verb or adjective conjugation (esp. ren'yōkei) as a noun
binary-coded decimal representation
binary-coded decimal representation
gestalt method; a priori method
scanline algorithm
dither method
polytope method
radiosity method
run length method
positional (representation) system; positional notation
variable-point representation system
BPAM; Basic Partitioned Access Method
access mode
fixed-point representation system
difference method
BSAM; Basic Sequential Access Method
integer programming
gestalt method; a priori method
Communications Decency Act; CDA
non-linear programming
floating-point (representation) system
coded decimal notation
composite algorithm
analysis of variance
gun control law
library arrangement; organization of books in a library
Public Corporations and Government Enterprises Labor Relations Act
idiomatic usage
international criminal law
greedy algorithm
greedy algorithm
form of muscular or movement therapy developed by Keizo Hashimoto
law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems
operator method
Bartlett Act (1964); Bartlett method; technique for estimating power spectra
legal hermeneutics
British North America Act (now known as the Constitution Act 1867)
(arch.) fractional sampling; (arch.) method of quartering; (arch.) quartation; method of lunar calendar formulation
Law Concerning Special Measures Against Dioxins
sputtering (semiconductor manuf.); sputtering method
beam propagation method; BPM
gap in the law
panoramic radiography; panoramic x-ray photography
Act on Port Regulations (1948)
euphemism; periphrasis; circumlocution
numeration system
green-sand casting; casting metal with a green-sand mould
Local Government Finance Act
Local Public Enterprise Act
substantive law
Large-Scale Earthquake Countermeasures Law (1979)
Administrative Procedures Act (1993)
Atomic Energy Damage Compensation Law (1961)
Law Concerning the Promotion of Specific Non-Profit Organization Activities (1998); the NPO Law
three strikes law (US)
rectification; modification
interpolation
extrapolation
autogenic training
Educational Personnel Certification Law; Teacher's License Law
temple (Buddhist)
high temperature short time sterilization method; HTST; flash pasteurization
Opium Law (1954)
National Government Defrayment Act for Reconstruction of Disaster-Stricken Public Facilities
Public Corporation and Government Enterprise Labor Relations Law (1949)
National Enterprise Labor Relations Law (1986)
bootstrap method (of resampling); bootstrapping
urine dipstick test
Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law
spectroscopy
Bank of Japan Act
Travel Agency Act
Act on Payment of Relief Benefit for Victims, etc. of Crimes Committed by Aum Shinrikyo (2008)
Administrative Appeal Act (1962); Administrative Complaint Investigation Law
non-parametric method
simulated annealing
hill-climbing method
maximum parsimony method
experimental design; design of experiments
man-made law
applicable law; governing law; proper law
Foreign Exchange and Foreign Control Trade Law
1992 Property Disclosure Act; law requiring members of parliament to disclose their assets
jackknife method; jackknifing
saddle point method; steepest descent method; gradient descent method
hydraulic fracturing; fracking
scratch test; scarification
the law of obligations
Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food
Land Improvement Act (1949, reformed in 2001); Land Improvement Law
Museum Act; Museum Law
integration by parts
divide and conquer
analytic hierarchy process; AHP
modal verb
expedition style (mountaineering); siege style
French law
flotation method (mineral processing)
contragradient method; conjugate gradient method; CG method
Era Name Act; Era Name Law
Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act
slope deflection method
ball-and-ring method; ring-and-ball test
dynamic programming; DP
quick method; shortcut (to); royal road
(Japanese) Civil Proceedings Act (1890, revised in 1926)
calculus of variations; variational method (in quantum mechanics)
Examples (22 in total)
The law should not be violated.
A new law has come into existence.
This is an ancient law.