Definition of こうて
- (n) rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
- grasshopper; locust (of family Catantopidae)
イナゴが大群をなしてやってきた。
Locusts came in big swarms.
- (n) good luck; fortune; happiness
幸にも授業に間に合った。
Fortunately, I made it to the class. - harvest; yield
- (n) 10^32; hundred nonillion (American); (obs) hundred quintillion (British)
彼はその浅い溝を飛び越えた。
He leaped over the shallow ditch.
- (n) hand; arm
こちらに来るように手で合図した。
I made motions at him to come here with my hand. - forepaw; foreleg
- handle
- hand; worker; help
- trouble; care; effort
- means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
いい手を思いついた。
I hit upon a good idea. - hand; handwriting
- kind; type; sort
- one's hands; one's possession
本は現在誰の手にも入る。
Books are now within the reach of everybody. - ability to cope
あいつらには手が負えない。
They are out of hand. - hand (of cards)
いい手が配られた。
I was dealt a good hand. - direction
- (n, n-suf, ctr) move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- (n) carapace; shell
- 1st in rank; grade A
- instep; back of hand
- the A party (e.g. in a contract); the first party
- (n) box
- car (of a train, etc.)
- shamisen case; shamisen
- man who carries a geisha's shamisen
- receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces)