じょ

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Japanese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Syllable

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じょ (jo

  1. The hiragana syllable じょ (jo). Its equivalent in katakana is ジョ (jo).

Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of じょ – see the following entries.
1
[noun] a woman, especially an actress or a prostitute
[proper noun] (Chinese astronomy) the Girl constellation, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions
[suffix] (historical) suffixed to names of female figures in the Edo period
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[number] A trillion trillion, 1024, or a septillion of modern English in modern Japanese since 17th century.
3
[prefix] help
[prefix] assistant
(This term, じょ (jo), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as じょ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as じょ.)

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