りょう
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Prefix
1. both (hands, parents, sides, etc.)
Counter
2. counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles
Noun
3. ryō; tael; traditional unit of weight (for gold, silver and drugs), 4-5 monme, 15-19 g
4. ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
5. ryō; traditional measure of fabric, 2 tan
6. ryō; tael; unit of weight under the Ritsuryo system, 1/16 kin, 42-43 g
Archaic
Counter
7. counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.
Kanji used
both
Pitch accent
りょ
Top 2500
Used in vocabulary (124 in total)
both hands; both arms; ten
parents; both parents
Examples (8 in total)
Both nations entered into a war.
How many cars does the Tsubasa have?
Her cheeks turned red.
He mediated between the two parties.
The referee must be fair to both teams.
Tom kissed her on both cheeks.
To avoid confusion, the teams wore different colors.
The train is made up of fifteen cars.