しゅ
Meanings
Noun
1. great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses
Noun
Suffix
Familiar language
Honorific
2. people; folk; clique; bunch
Alt. forms
Kanji used
a lot of people
Pitch accent
しゅ
Used in vocabulary (20 in total)
group (of people); crowd; horde; throng; mob; multitude
men; manservant; male attendants to an actor
young man; youth; lad; servant boy; young shopboy
young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony); young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute); younger partner in a homosexual relationship
women; maidservant
male homosexuality; pederasty
courtier; noble; people serving the Imperial Court
many priests; (Heian era) monk-soldiers
mobocracy; mob rule; ochlocracy
large number of priests
common talk; talk of the town; words of many people
assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.); (monks and laity of) the Jishū sect
Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
deva; celestial being
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees); four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices); the four assemblies
filled with numerous sufferings
guard (of a daimyo, emperor, etc.)
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people