しょう
Meanings
Noun
1. life; living
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (52 in total)
afterlife; for goodness' sake; for the love of God; I implore you, ...
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
living thing; animate
(arch.) birth parents; (arch.) birthplace; child; creation
crude drug; natural drug; galenical
Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis); 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day
the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)
the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)
reincarnation; rebirth; transmigration; metempsychosis
life and death; life or death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
by nature; naturally; by birth; since birth; in one's (entire) life
house where one was born; one's parents' house
generating cycle (of the five elements in Chinese philosophy; wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, water generates wood); mutual generation
one's nature or personality; inherent; innate
previous existence
living things
life and death
birth and death
neither arising nor ceasing
seven lives; seven generations
commit suicide
birthplace
seedling; plant raised from the seed
previous existence; future existence; transmigration
nama-fu; wheat gluten mixed with rice flour and steamed in large blocks
blessings bestowed by the Buddha on all living creatures
the four ways of birth (from a womb, an egg, moisture or spontaneously); catur-yoni
the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction
government official next in rank to the sakan (ritsuryō system)
ancient Indian collection of tales on the early lives of Buddha (ca. 4th century BCE); Jataka
metempsychosis; saving the lives of many
the instant of birth (rebirth)
nine lives (of a cat)
suspicion begets monsters
(arch.) birthplace; place of rebirth; place of reincarnation
(arch.) birthplace; place of rebirth; place of reincarnation
a rolling stone gathers no moss
ancient Indian collection of tales on the early lives of Buddha (ca. 4th century BCE); Jataka
this world; this life
pharmacognosy
birth is the beginning of death
sancita karma; karma whose cause is in the present life but whose effect is in the next life
freshly curdled butter
nothing comes from nothing
Rashōmon (gate in old Kyoto); Rashōmon (story by Akutagawa, film by Kurosawa)
being between life and death; being on the verge of death
Heian-period student of government administration; Buddhist scholar; researcher at a Buddhist temple; learning; scholarship
teacher; instructor; master; previous existence
Examples (2 in total)
I respect my English teacher, Mr. Taniguchi.
He is in fourth grade of elementary school.