NichiDict

百姓

ひゃくしょう
[hyakushou]
Illustration for 百姓

Meanings

1.Noun

farmer; peasant; farm laborer; farmhand

2.Noun

farming

3.Noun

country bumpkin; yokel

4.Noun

the common people

Other Readings

百姓」 has another reading with different meanings.

Examples

百姓が田畑を耕していた。

Farmers were tilling their fields.

この村の百姓は米作りが盛んだ。

The farmers of this village are active in rice cultivation.

昔の百姓の暮らしを博物館で学んだ。

I learned about the life of old-time farmers at the museum.