Kanji
Readingしょう
Frequency57%
Used in (17 in total)
farmer; peasant; farming; the common people
(noble's) page
surname; family name; hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
peasant uprising (Edo period); peasants' revolt
low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
peasant; small farmer
person of humble birth
secular surname (of a priest)
nonstandard reading of a kanji
freeholding farmer; freeholding peasant