ぼうちょう

See also: ほうちょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぼうちょう – see the following entries.

【膨張】 [noun] swelling; distension; expansion; inflation [noun] (figurative) swelling (e.g. of a budget or spending); expansion [verb] to swell; to distend; to expand; to inflate [verb] (figurative) to expand; to swell Alternative spelling 膨脹

【茅蜩】 [noun] evening cicada

【傍聴】 [noun] attendance as a visitor; listening without participating [verb] listen without participating; sit in (attend as a visitor)

【防諜】 [noun] counterintelligence, counterespionage

【防長】 [proper noun] (historical) Suō (周防) and Nagato (長門), corresponding to modern day Yamaguchi prefecture

(This term, ぼうちょう (bōchō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 防潮, 防鳥, 坊庁, 坊長, 暴漲.)