きゆう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きゆう – see the following entries.

【杞憂】 [noun] groundless fear Alternative spelling き憂

【癸酉】 [noun] Water Rooster, the tenth term of the sexagenary cycle

【己酉】 [noun] Earth Rooster, the forty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle

(This term, きゆう (kiyū), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

【宮きゅう】3 [noun] a palace [noun] (traditional music of China and Japan) the keynote or tonic of a musical scale, such as do in the do re mi scale notation of solfège [noun] Short for 宮刑: literally “palace punishment”, this consisted of castration for men and sequestration in the palace for women [noun] (astronomy, astrology) a zodiac sign or house, defined as one-twelfth of the circle of the ecliptic

(This term, きゆう (kyuu), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as きゆう, see Category:Japanese kanji read as きゆう.)