しゅう

See also: しゆう, じゆう, and じゅう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しゅう – see the following entries.

【州】3 [noun] first-level administrative division of some countries, such as: (1) state of the United States, Australia, India, Nigeria and Germany; (2) province of Canada; (3) canton of Switzerland; etc. [noun] used in place names, usually associated with (historical) political divisions [suffix] continent [suffix] used in place names Alternative spelling 洲

【集】3 [noun] collection, assembly [suffix] collected works of, compilation of, collection of Alternative spelling 輯

【週】2 [noun] a week (unit of time) [counter] weeks [proper noun] a male or female given name

【周】4 [counter] laps or circuits [proper noun] Zhou

【衆】6 [noun] the masses, the public, crowd [noun] majority, numerical superiority [noun] group of people [noun] (historical) ellipsis of 所の衆 (Tokoro-no-shū) [suffix] (honorific) Used to indicate plurality (modern) or referring to a single individual (classical) Alternative spelling しゅ

【臭】S [suffix] smell of [suffix] (slang, figurative) stench of; whiff of; scent of

【秀】S [noun] excellence [noun] (something) exemplary, (something) excellent, (something) outstanding [proper noun] a male given name

【醜】S [noun] ugliness

【岫】H [noun] (rare) cave

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

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 宗, 囚, 執, 主.)