よう
Meanings
Counter
Suffix
1. counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc.
2. counter for boats
Kanji used
leaf
Pitch accent
Top 16700
Used in vocabulary (71 in total)
autumn colours; fall colors; leaves turning red; red leaves; leaves turning yellow; yellow leaves; (Japanese) maple (Acer japonicum)
one leaf; one page; one sheet; (arch.) one boat
branches and leaves; foliage; unimportant details; nonessentials; side issue
ornamental (foliage) plant; houseplant
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages
two flat things
leaf vegetable; green vegetable; edible herb
veins of a leaf
lobe; lobule; lobulus; leaflet; foliole; microphyll
about the middle (of an era); middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate)
Tokyo and Chiba
willow-leaf arrowhead; part of a Japanese stirrup; willow leaf
upper lobe (of lung); superior lobe
end (of an era, century); close; descendant
compound leaf; biplane
bloodline; lineage; family; clan
Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai); goyoumatsu
cotyledon; seed leaf
thin Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper); Japanese tissue
true leaf; foliage leaf
member of the Imperial family; royalty; beautiful clouds
simple leaf; monoplane
preceding page; anterior pituitary
thin sheet of silver; silver foil; censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony; Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam
pulmonary lobe; lobe of the lung
lotus leaf
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)
pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas)
lusterleaf holly (Ilex latifolia); pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
thick Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper)
radical leaf; rosette
next page
palm-leaf manuscript
bract (leaf)
radical leaf; rosette; basal leaf
lower lobe (of lung); inferior lobe
petiole wing (leaf)
phyllotaxis; phyllotaxy
omasum; psalterium; third compartment of the stomach in ruminants
germ layer; germinal epithelium
sclerophyll forest; sclerophyllous forest; hardwood forest
Lecanorchis japonica (species of saprophytic orchid)
foliage; leaves of trees