わこう

Japanese

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

【倭寇】 [noun] (historical) wokou (pirates from a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries) Alternative spelling 和寇

【若生】 [proper noun] a surname

【和光】 [proper noun] Wakō (a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan)

(This term, わこう (wakō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)