百姓

ひゃくしょう

Meanings

1. Noun farmer; peasant; farm laborer; farmhand
2. farming
3. country bumpkin; yokel
4. the common people See also: 百姓 (ひゃくせい).

Kanji

• 百 hundred. Read as ヒャク.
• 姓 surname. Read as ショウ.

Example sentences

• お百姓さんはそれを聞いて喜ぶに違いない。
  The farmers must be happy to hear that.
• 彼の両親はお百姓でした。
  His parents were farmers.

Words containing 百姓

• 百姓一揆 (ひゃくしょういっき) peasant uprising (Edo period)
• 百姓家 (ひゃくしょうや) farmer's home
• 土百姓 (どびゃくしょう) farmer

And 7 more.

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