Meaning of じょう in Japanese

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Definition of じょう

  1. (n) jailer; gaoler; old man; rank; company officer
  1. (n-suf) from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
  2. aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above
  3. (n) first volume (e.g. book) →Related words:
  4. (n, pref) superior quality; best; top; high class
  5. going up
  6. governmental; imperial
  7. presenting; showing
  8. (pref) ana- (medical, biol.)
  1. (n) uselessness
  1. (n) unmarried woman
  2. (n-suf) (after a name) Miss

    田中嬢は長年アメリカにいたので英語を話すのが非常にうまい。
    Having been in America for many years, Miss Tanaka is a very good speaker of English.

  3. (after a line of work) -ess; -ette
  1. (n) feelings; emotion; sentiment

    情は人のためならず。
    One good turn deserves another.

  2. compassion; sympathy
  3. passion; affection; love
  4. the way things really are; the actual situation
  1. (n, n-suf) shape; state →Related words: 帯状
  2. letter; correspondence →Related words: 招待状
  1. (ctr) counter for tatami mats

    彼は畳の上に大の字になった。
    He lay on the mat at full length.

  2. measure of room size (in mat units)
  1. (n) lock; padlock

    ジョージはその犬に鎖をつけた。
    George put a chain on the dog.

  2. (n, n-suf, ctr) tablet; lozenge; pill

    ラベルには一回2錠と書いてある。
    It says on the label to take two tablets.

  1. (n) article (in document); provision
  2. stripe; streak; line
  1. (suf) (nth) power

    3の3乗は27である。
    3 to the third power is 27.

  2. (ctr) counter for vehicles
  3. (n) multiplication
  4. (Buddh) Buddha's teachings
  1. (suf) castle (in place names)
  1. (n) 10^28
  1. (n) 3.03 meters (ten shaku) →Related words:
  2. length; measure
  3. (suf) Mr.; Mrs.
  1. (n) severe caning (60-100 times) →Related words: 五刑
  1. (n) inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo period) →Related words: 四等官
  1. (n) folding book
  2. (suf, ctr) counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori)
  3. counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.
  4. counter for pairs of curtains
  5. counter for tatami mats →Related words:
しょう(shou) · じょう(jou)

正 Kanji Details

  1. (n, n-pref) greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior →Related words:
  2. director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo period); chief →Related words: 長官
  3. (pref) (before a number) exactly; precisely
  1. (n-suf, n) place; spot; grounds; arena; stadium; range; course

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