Definition of こう
- (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) 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)