じょう – Vocabulary details

じょう

Counter

Noun

1. article (in document); provision

2. stripe; streak; line

Suffix

3. although; though

4. since; as; because; inasmuch as

じょ

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a line; a streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident); (arch.) the same logic

condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite

what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo); what article? (in a law); (arch.) how can?; (arch.) cannot possibly

非ひ暴ぼう力りょくというのは私わたしの信しん仰こうの第だい１いちじょうだ。

Non-violence is the first article of my faith.

第だい６じょう議ぎ長ちょうは全ぜん会かい議ぎを主しゅ宰さいするものとする。

Article 6. The president shall preside at all meetings.

私わたしは日に本ほんが憲けん法ぽう第だい９じょうを守まもることを希き望ぼうします。

I hope that Japan will abide by Article 9 of her Constitution.

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