じょう – Vocabulary details

じょう

Counter

Noun

Suffix

1. article (in a document); clause; section; provision

第だい二に条じょうにはこう書かいてある。Article 2 says the following.

Counter

2. counter for lines, stripes, streaks, rays, etc.

雲くもの切きれ間まから、数すう条じょうの光ひかりが差さし込こんだ。Several rays of light shone through a break in the clouds.

3. although; though

as とは言い条

4. since; as; because; inasmuch as

used in letters

Noun

Historical

5. jō; north-south division of an imperial city consisting of west-east streets and their corresponding wards (in the jō-bō system)

四し条じょうまで出でるつもりだったが諦あきらめ、私わたしは引ひき返かえした。I had intended to go as far as Shijō, but I gave up and turned back.

じょ

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what article (of a legal document, etc.); what clause; which street; (arch.) how can (one possibly do ...); (arch.) cannot possibly ...

condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite

one line; one streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident)

第だい二にじょうにはこう書かいてある。

Article 2 says the following.

彼かれは規き則そくの第だい五ごじょうに違い反はんした。

He violated Article 5 of the rules.

青あお空ぞらに二にじょうの飛ひ行こう機き雲ぐもが伸のびていた。

Two vapor trails stretched across the blue sky.

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