Word Meaning 小馬鹿

こばか kobaka

小馬鹿 is read as こばか (kobaka) and means fool.

Meaning

English

  1. fool
  2. someone beneath one's contempt

Reading

Kana

こばか

Romaji

kobaka

Writing Variants

  • 小ばか こばか kobaka
  • 小莫迦 こばか kobaka

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 24 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 50852 Priority H

Related Vocabulary

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小鹿

こじか

fawn

馬鹿

ばか

Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell)

四月馬鹿

しがつばか

April fool

大馬鹿

おおばか

extreme foolishness

役者馬鹿

やくしゃばか

good actor who is inept in all other matters

機械馬鹿

きかいばか

skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters

ワープロ馬鹿

わーぷろばか

someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer

桜切る馬鹿、梅切らぬ馬鹿

さくらきるばかうめきらぬばか

only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees

薄馬鹿

うすばか

dimwit

薄ら馬鹿

うすらばか

simpleton

小人河馬

こびとかば

pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)