じょう
Meanings
Noun
1. unmarried woman
Suffix
2. Miss
after a name
3. -ess; -ette
after a line of work
Kanji used
young lady
Pitch accent
じょ
Top 8200
Used in vocabulary (24 in total)
(your) daughter; young woman
(someone else's) daughter
receptionist; reception woman
(another's) daughter; young lady (esp. of respectable upbringing)
hostess (in a hostess bar)
woman who works in the sex industry
elderly spinster
(someone else's) daughter
you (esp. unmarried women)
hostess (in a hostess bar)
sex worker (at a soapland)
one's beloved daughter
female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)
(arch.) girl; (arch.) young (unmarried) woman; (grown) woman; lady; (someone else's) wife
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)
female employee of a brothel-massage parlor
female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)
prostitute working at a soapland; (lit.) Turkish girl
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.