じょう – Vocabulary details

じょう

Counter

Noun

Suffix

1. article (in a document); clause; section; provision

Counter

2. counter for lines, stripes, streaks, rays, etc.

3. although; though

as とは言い条

4. since; as; because; inasmuch as

used in letters

Noun

Historical

5. jō; north-south division of an imperial city consisting of west-east streets and their corresponding wards (in the jō-bō system)

じょ

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what article (of a legal document, etc.); what clause; which street; (arch.) how can (one possibly do ...); (arch.) cannot possibly ...

one line; one streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident)

condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite

非ひ暴ぼう力りょくというのは私わたしの信しん仰こうの第だい１いちじょうだ。

Non-violence is the first article of my faith.

第だい６じょう議ぎ長ちょうは全ぜん会かい議ぎを主しゅ宰さいするものとする。

Article 6. The president shall preside at all meetings.

私わたしは日に本ほんが憲けん法ぽう第だい９じょうを守まもることを希き望ぼうします。

I hope that Japan will abide by Article 9 of her Constitution.

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