Kanji
Readingうま
Frequency28%
Used in (135 in total)
coach (horse-drawn); carriage; wagon; cart
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop
to get on a horse; to mount a horse
curious onlookers; rubbernecks
horseback riding; sitting astride; straddling
white horse; unrefined sake
person of doubtful origin
stallion brought close to a mare to test her readiness to mate; stalking horse; spoiler
votive picture (originally of horse)
restive horse; unmanageable person (esp. a woman); shrew; stubborn tomboy
cart-horse; work-horse; doing something wholeheartedly; doing with one's undivided attention
to get on well (with a person); (lit.) to be a good match with one's horse (e.g. of a rider)
restive horse; runaway horse; out of control horse
horse; horsie
packhorse; workhorse; hack
minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)
mare; filly
studhorse; stallion; breeding horse
small horse; pony; foal; colt; filly
seahorse; sea horse; hippocampus; walrus
packhorse driver
battle standard raised next to the horse of a commander
stilts (for walking); hobby horse
stable; barn
pack horse
to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly; to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)
long thin face; Black Scraper (fish)
unsaddled horse
unburdened horse
owner of a horse (esp. racehorse); registered owner (of a racehorse)
to side with the winner; to ride (someone's) coattails; to get on the bandwagon
to be shrewd; to be sharp; to keep your wits about you; (lit.) to pluck out the eye of a live horse
long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path)
ornately decorated horse used in processions of dignitaries; horse led by a rope
winning horse; winner
horse market
wild horse
male horse
hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
preaching to the deaf; (lit.) reading the nenbutsu into a horse's ear
dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat (coloured); white horse
untamed horse; unbroken horse; wild horse; bronco
the future is unpredictable; inscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate
buttocks of a horse being ridden or followed; blind imitation
inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable
to get along well with
live horse; living horse
hung like a horse; big-dicked
bucking horse; unmanageable horse
front runner
cavalry; cavalry battle
horses owned; horse owned
bill collector for the night's entertainment; followers
point along a (mountain) pass beyond which a horse cannot travel
scrawny horse
do not shoot straight for the top; he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin; (lit.) if you want to shoot the general, first shoot his horse
horse botfly (Gasterophilus intestinalis)
horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows
dark horse (candidate)
(game of) leapfrog; leapfrogging
autumn comes with harvest time and clear weather; (lit.) autumn with the sky clear and blue, and horses growing stout
harrow; rake
traditional horse-racing; originally two horses head-to-head or ten at a time, esp. May 5 event at Kamigamo shrine
riding horse; saddle horse
bill collector for the night's entertainment; followers
come-from-behind horse
native Japanese horse
loading a horse with passengers or baggage; driving a horse into a pen; Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)
stablehand; groom
a daimyo's (mounted) guards or retainers
camel cricket (Diestrammena apicalis); camelback cricket; cave cricket; spider cricket
breaking in a horse
washtub for horses; horse tub
wood sledge
kanji "horse" radical at left
horse doctor; horse veterinarian
preaching to the deaf; (lit.) wind (blowing) into a horse's ear
wild horse; unmanageable horse
riding a horse so skillfully that it appears as if man and horse have become one
dead horse; stupid horse; useless horse; crowbait
sire (horse)
birds of a feather flock together; horses work best together; don't mix your horses with your cows
Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture); small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate Prefecture)
birds of a feather flock together; don't mix your horses with your cows
trust the judgement of the experienced; (lit.) an old horse won't forget the way
horse-carrying military ship
Kiso horse (Japanese indigenous horse breed); kisouma
toothed medick (Medicago polymorpha); hairy medick; bur clover; white clover (Trifolium repens)
equine influenza; horse flu
you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; (lit.) judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him
you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; (lit.) try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him
low geta (once used when cleaning the garden)
even an unruly horse can be tamed
Equuleus (constellation); the Colt
Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii); Dzungarian horse
learn to crawl before you learn to walk; (lit.) until you ride a horse, ride a cow
Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)
broodmare (horse breeding)
to go from (using, etc.) something bad to something good; (lit.) to change (from riding) a cow to (riding) a horse
horse botfly
alfalfa (Medicago sativa); alphalpha; lucerne
buttercup (Ranunculus japonicus)
epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus spp.)
great seahorse (Hippocampus kelloggi); Kellogg's seahorse; offshore seahorse
black scraper fish (Novodon modestus)
Shirouma shrew (Sorex hosonoi shiroumanus)
mountain zebra (Equus zebra)
Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii); Dzungarian horse
Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi)
Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi)
plains zebra (Equus quagga)
Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii)
Whitmania pigra (species of leech)
thrips (any insect of order Thysanoptera); thrip
black medic (Medicago lupulina); black hay; black nonsuch; blackweed
horse that bites people; biter
building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds)
yearling; one-year-old horse; first menstruation; sanitary napkin used during first menstruation
horse armor; horse armour
horse trough
speckled horse
Houma City (Shanxi)