こ
Meanings
Counter
1. counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
こ
Used in vocabulary (24 in total)
open air; outdoors; outside
non-drinker; someone who cannot drink
number of houses; number of households
all the houses (in an area); all the apartments (in a building); the whole family; the whole household
family register; census
dwelling unit (esp. in apartment block, etc.)
tradesman (in the ritsuryō system)
unsold apartment (usu. newly built); remaining apartments (unsold)
Ministry of Revenue (Tang dynasty China)
houses and inhabitants; population
(separate) house; detached house
all houses; many houses
head of a household
every house; each household
house-to-house; door-to-door; each house
plot number; house number
each house; every house
private house
rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
imperial tomb guard
household with at least one member subject to taxation (ritsuryō system)
Jōko Station
Examples (2 in total)
This is a map of Ninohe District.
Two hundred houses were burnt down in the fire which broke out yesterday.