Meaning
坊ちゃん (ぼっちゃん, bocchan) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “son (of others)”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
お 宅のお 坊ちゃんはおいくつですか
How old is your son?
御坊ちゃんに幸あれ。
All our best to that little boy.
御坊ちゃんに 幸あれ。
All our best to that little boy.
彼は 家柄の 良いお 坊ちゃんだ
He is the son of a good family.
この 本の 題名は「 坊ちゃん」です。
The title of this book is "Botchan".
良い意味で「お坊ちゃん」、悪い意味では「どら息子」のニュアンスが含まれる。
In this case, it has a nuance of 'o-bochan' (a son who is well brought up) in a good meaning, and 'dora-musuko' (a prodigal son) in a bad meaning.
しかし秀家は秀吉に寵愛されたために苦労を知らず、そのためにお坊ちゃん育ちな一面があった。
However due his favor with Hideyoshi he had never undergone hardship, and because of this he had a naïve side.
そしてあの夜、満月で、全ての鳥が寝静まったころ、かご船（フランシス・プリティー坊ちゃんならそう呼んだことでしょう）に乗り込んで、島を離れたのでした。
And that night, the moon being full, and all the birds asleep, he did enter his coracle (as Master Francis Pretty would have said) and depart out of the island.
彼は細菌学の権威ではあるが世間のことはまるで坊ちゃんだ. Though he is an authority on bacteriology, he knows nothing about the world.元来お坊ちゃんの与三郎が色恋沙汰で与太者に転落する。
A wellborn son, Yosaburo becomes a rogue because of a love affair.