じょう
Meanings
Noun
1. 3.03 meters (ten shaku)
2. length; measure
Suffix
Honorific
3. Mr.; Mrs.
after the name of an artiste
Pitch accent
じょ
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Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
stout-hearted; firm; courageous; brave; tough
hurrah!; long life; congratulations; full vent
plain-woven silk cloth produced on Hachijo Island (sometimes striped)
hero; manly person; warrior
square jō (approx. 10 sq feet); abbot's chamber; chief priest; Mount Fangzhang (said to be inhabited by immortals); Mount Fanghu
over ten feet
one jō and six shaku (4.85m); statue of Buddha measuring one jō and six shaku; sitting cross-legged
elder; senior; wife's father; father-in-law
many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); (lit.) three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)