ちょう
Meanings
Counter
1. counter for long and narrow things (e.g. guns, spades, hoes, oars, ink sticks, candles, abacuses, kitchen knives, scissors, shamisen, violins); counter for palanquins, rickshaws, and similar vehicles
Pitch accent
ちょ
う
Used in vocabulary (29 in total)
exactly; precisely; just; just (like); as if; as though
kitchen knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
even and odd numbers (on dice); chō-han; gambling game in which two dice are thrown and players bet on whether the total is odd or even