しょう
Meanings
Noun
1. life; living
Pitch accent
しょ
Used in vocabulary (45 in total)
afterlife
living thing; animate
natural drugs; natural remedy; herbal medicine; crude drugs; galenical
living things
(arch.) birth parents; (arch.) birthplace; child; creation
the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
seven lives; seven generations
Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis); 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)
the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)
transmigration; reincarnation; metempsychosis
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
house where one was born; one's parents' house
one's nature or personality; inherent; innate
previous existence
life and death
number of years since one's birth; age
metempsychosis; saving the lives of many
birthplace
neither arising nor ceasing
commit suicide
previous existence; future existence; transmigration
seedling; plant raised from the seed
nama-fu; wheat gluten mixed with rice flour and steamed in large blocks
blessings bestowed by the Buddha on all living creatures
the instant of birth (rebirth)
government official next in rank to the sakan (ritsuryo system)
the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
nine lives (of a cat)
suspicion begets monsters
(arch.) birthplace; place of rebirth; place of reincarnation
a rolling stone gathers no moss
this world; this life
pharmacognosy; the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources
birth is the beginning of death
sancita karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect is in the next life
freshly curdled butter
half death
Heian-period student of government administration; Buddhist scholar; researcher at a Buddhist temple; learning; scholarship
teacher; instructor; master; previous existence
Examples (3 in total)
This rule doesn't apply to first-year students.
We were in the first year of middle school last year.
He is in fourth grade of elementary school.