そうし

See also: そうじ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of そうし – see the following entries.

【桑梓】	[noun] mulberry trees and cherry-birch trees [noun] (literary, figurative) one's hometown

【創始】	[noun] genesis, origination [verb] create

【掃司】	[proper noun] (history) a 律令 (ritsuryō) position in the 後宮 (Kōkyū, “Seraglio”) that's responsible for maintaining and cleaning the court interior

【相思】	[noun] Synonym of 相思相愛 (sōshi sōai, “mutual love”)

【草子】	[noun] Alternative spelling of 草紙 (sōshi)

【草紙】	[noun] a text in which pages are bound together as a book [noun] the contents contained within such a text; a story, journal, etc. [noun] a manuscript

【荘子】	[proper noun] Zhuangzi (an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period)
【荘子そうじ】	[proper noun] Zhuangzi (an ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher)

【創志】	[proper noun] a male given name

【総司】	[proper noun] a male given name

(This term, そうし (sōshi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)