しょう

See also: じょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しょう – see the following entries.

【背負う】

[verb] [from 1278] to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder

Alternative spelling
負う

【小】1

[noun] smallness; small size, small (sometimes used as an abbreviation for small serving, etc.)

[noun] Short for 小の月 (shō no tsuki).

[noun] (historical) during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, a unit of field area equal to around 400 square metres (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

[prefix] small, little

[suffix] suffix after names of elementary schools

[proper noun] a surname

【正】1	[prefix] (history) "senior" ranking for 位 (-i, “Japanese courtier rank”) [prefix] 正: exactly (of a number) [adjective] proper; straight, direct; genuine, true [numeral] ten-duodecillion (10⁴⁰)

【生】1	[affix] life; lifetime

【声】2	[noun] a voice, speech [noun] a tone [noun] a variation of stress in pronunciation [noun] Short for 声点 (shōten): a tone mark (in Middle Chinese) [affix] voice, sound [affix] expression, speech [affix] tone (in Chinese linguistics)

【昭】3	[affix] bright [affix] enlightened, glorious

【商】3	[noun] dealing, dealer, merchant [noun] (arithmetic) quotient

【章】3	[noun] chapter; section [noun] badge

【相】3	[suffix] minister of state

【勝】3	[noun] win, victory [counter] wins, victories

【省】4	[noun] ministry, government department, office [noun] Chinese province [prefix] -saving, conservation [suffix] ministry

【象】5	[noun] likeness, appearance

【証】5	[noun] proof, verification [noun] (Buddhism) enlightenment [noun] (traditional Chinese medicine) symptoms

【招】5	[affix] invitation; to invite

【賞】5	[noun] prize [suffix] prize, award

【性】5	[noun] the nature of something

【承】6	[noun] consent

【将】6

[noun] a commander

[noun] a general, admiral, or other high-ranking officer, especially of the Japan Self-Defense Forces

[noun] (historical) a rank in the 近衛府 (Konoe-fu, “office of the imperial guard during the Nara period”)

[affix] commander, general, leader

[affix] military rank

[affix] take, hold

[affix] from now on, in the future

[proper noun] a female given name

【宵】S	[affix] night [affix] time after sunset until midnight

【肖】S	[affix] image; likeness

【床】S	[noun] sickbed [counter] beds Alternative spelling 牀

【升】S	[noun] a unit of volume, equal to 10 合 (gō) or about 1.8 liters

【荘】S	[suffix] manor Alternative spelling 庄

【症】S	[suffix] (medicine) attached to the names of conditions

【匠】S	[noun] skilled worker

【鐘】S	[noun] bell

【姓】S	[noun] (uncommon) surname, family name [noun] (uncommon) clan

【祥】S	[noun] an omen of good fortune or happiness [noun] a sign of good or bad luck [noun] This term needs a translation to English. [proper noun] a male given name [proper noun] a surname

【称】S	[noun] name; reputation

【詔】S	[noun] imperial edict

【衝】S	[noun] (astronomy) opposition

【請】S	[noun] request

【礁】S	[noun] reef

【庄】J	[proper noun] a male given name

【翔】J	[proper noun] a male given name

【笙】J	[noun] a free-reed woodwind musical instrument used in Japanese court music, consisting of a mouthpiece and seventeen pipes, each similar to an organ pipe

【頌】J	[noun] eulogy

【鈔】H	[noun] an excerpt, an extract (writing) [noun] an annotation [noun] a unit of volume, equal to one tenth of a 勺 (shaku) and one hundredth of a 合 (gō), or approximately 1.8 millilitres Alternative spelling 抄

【妾】H	[noun] concubine [pronoun] (humble, feminine) I, me

【簫】H	[noun] xiao, a vertically blown Chinese flute

【鍾】H	[noun] bronze jar used for storing alcohol

【鉦】H	[noun] gong

【掌】S	[suffix] (martial arts) used in the names of moves that involve hitting and pushing hard with the palm

【兄鷹】	[noun] a small hawk [noun] a male hawk [noun] musket, male sparrowhawk

【少輔】	[noun] junior assistant minister in Ritsuryō

【諸有】	[noun] (Buddhism) the state of being alive

(This term, しょう (shō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as しょう, see Category:Japanese kanji read as しょう.)