しょうちょう

Japanese

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

【省庁】 [noun] 省 and 庁 government offices

【象徴】 [noun] symbol [verb] symbolize

【小腸】 [noun] (anatomy) small intestine

【正長】 [proper noun] the Shōchō era, 1428-1429

【消長】 [noun] prosperity and decline, rise and fall [verb] to prosper and decline

(This term, しょうちょう (shōchō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)