こうあん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こうあん – see the following entries.

【公安】 [noun] public safety [noun] police officers responsible for matters of national security and counter-intelligence. [proper noun] Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau

【公案】 [noun] koan

【考案】 [noun] device [noun] plan, scheme [verb] to design, to invent [verb] to devise, to develop, to think up (a plan, method, etc.)

【康安】 [proper noun] the Kōan era, 1361-1362 by the Northern Court reckoning

【弘安】 [proper noun] the Kōan era, 1278-1288

【高安】 [proper noun] A county-level city in Yichun, Jiangxi, China.

(This term, こうあん (kōan), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 香案, 苟安, 光安.)