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)
① 生まれ変わること。② 生活や環境を一変させること。
① 生きることと死ぬこと。生きているか死んでいるか。② : (仏教) 迷い。生き替わり死に替わる迷いの世界。
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
① その人の生まれた家。
one's nature or personality; inherent; innate
previous existence
life and death
number of years since one's birth; age
① 輪廻して何回も生まれ変わること。② 多くのものを生かすこと。
① 生まれた土地。
neither arising nor ceasing
commit suicide
① 今生に対して、前世と来世。
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
① 仏教において、四有の一つ。人が生まれる瞬間。
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.