こう
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. (Buddhist) lecture meeting
2. religious association
3. mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance)
Pitch accent
こ
う
Used in vocabulary (38 in total)
to lecture; to read aloud; to devise (e.g. a strategy); to work out (e.g. a tactic); to confer; to hold conference (with)
auditorium; lecture hall
reconciliation (between warring nations); (making of) peace
unceremonious party; free and easy gathering; party with no regard for formal etiquette or status
taking a lecture; attending a class; taking a course
fete in honor of Ebisu (honour)
lecture
speaker; lecturer; lecturer (at a university or college); instructor; part-time teacher; tutor (at a cram school)
course (e.g. of lectures); academic university unit (professor, lecturers, etc.)
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
supplementary lecture; supplementary lesson; extra classes
criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique
lecture; discourse
lecture platform
pyramid scheme
mutual financing association
military training
religious association
start of a course; start of lectures; opening of a new course; offering a course (for the first time)
memorial services for the founder of the sect (esp. for Shinran in Shin Buddhism)
meeting (esp. of a mutual financing association)
substitute lecturing; substitute lecturer
taking turns reading, explaining, etc.; round-table (discussion)
explanation (by lecture)
kōshin-machi association
Edo-period Shinto sect dedicated to the worship of Mt. Fuji
religious association
mutual financing association
lengthy lecture
lecture room; lecture
lecture on a literary text; literary criticism lecture
university lecture
cram school teacher; teaching at a cram school
pursuit of learning; study
fraternal religious group formed by Ise Shrine worshippers
mutual financing association
Kodokan Judo Institute