じょう
Meanings
Noun
1. unmarried woman
Suffix
2. Miss
after a name
3. -ess; -ette
after a line of work
Pitch accent
じょ
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Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
(someone else's) daughter
(another's) daughter; young lady (esp. of respectable upbringing)
(your) daughter; young woman
receptionist; reception woman
hostess (in a hostess bar)
(arch.) girl; (arch.) young (unmarried) woman; (grown) woman; lady; (someone else's) wife
woman who works in the sex industry
elderly spinster
you (esp. unmarried women)
hostess (in a hostess bar)
female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)
female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)
sex worker (at a soapland)
one's beloved daughter
telephone operator
female employee of a brothel-massage parlor
daughter cell
prostitute working at a soapland; (lit.) Turkish girl
your daughter; young lady
daughter nucleus
Examples (2 in total)
He proposed to Miss Lee and she accepted.
Having been in America for many years, Miss Tanaka is a very good speaker of English.