りょ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of りょ – see the following entries.

【旅】3 [noun] in Zhou dynasty China, a military unit of 500 soldiers [noun] the fifty-sixth of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching ䷷ [prefix] a trip, a journey, travel

【呂】S [proper noun] An orthographic borrowing of the Chinese surname 呂 / 吕 (lǚ), Lu

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

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 虜, 慮, 侶, 絽, 捛, 梠, 郘, 鋁, 廬, 濾, 櫖, 爈, 膂.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɾʲo̞]

Etymology 1

Syllable

りょ • (ryo) 

1. The hiragana syllable りょ (ryo). Its equivalent in katakana is リョ (ryo).

Etymology 2

Shortening of 了(りょう)解(かい) (ryōkai).

Noun

りょ • (ryo) 

1. (text messaging slang) Short for 了解 (ryōkai, “understand”).