侯

Meaning

侯 centers on a high-ranking feudal title: a marquis or lord, and by extension a daimyo in Japanese context. It denotes noble status and authority.

• 侯こう

  marquis; second highest rank of the five ranks of nobility

• 諸侯しょこう

  feudal lords; barons; princes

• 侯爵こうしゃく

  marquis; marquess

• 王侯おうこう

  the king and his feudal lords

• 三百諸侯さんびゃくしょこう

  all daimyo

• 仙台侯せんだいこう

  Lord of Sendai

• 侯串ごうぐし

  wooden target holder (in archery)

• 侯伯こうはく

  nobles; feudal lords

• 侯国こうこく

  marquisate; marquessate; principality

• 侯爵夫人こうしゃくふじん

  marchioness

• 公侯こうこう

  princes and marquises; great feudal lords

• 公侯伯子男こうこうはくしだん

  duke, marquis, count, viscount and baron (five ranks of nobility in Japan; 1869-1947)

• 列侯れっこう

  many daimyo

• 土侯どこう

  local ruler

• 土侯国どこうこく

  native state (of pre-independence India); princely state

• 王侯将相いずくんぞ種あらんやおうこうしょうしょういずくんぞしゅあらんや

  high status does not depend on birth; every man can achieve great power if he exerts himself

• 王侯貴族おうこうきぞく

  royalty and titled nobility

• 藩侯はんこう

  feudal lord; daimyo

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