しゅ

See also: じゅ and Appendix:Variations of "ju"

Japanese

Syllable

しゅ • (shu) 

  1. The hiragana syllable しゅ (shu). Its equivalent in katakana is シュ (shu).

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of しゅ – see the following entries.
【首】2
[counter] poems and songs
[noun] (rare) the first one; a lord
【株】6
[noun] stump of a tree
【主】3
[noun] head of the family
[noun] master, mistress
[noun] one's husband
[noun] proprietor, landlord
[proper noun] the Lord
【守】3
[noun] (archaic) used when listing an official's titles when there are two or more (compare English cum)
[noun] short for 守護 (shugo, “protection, protector”)
[noun] (archaic) short for 国守 (kokushu, “head administrator of a kuni in the old Ritsuryō system”)
【朱】S
[noun] Abbreviation of 朱色 (“vermilion”).
【種】4
[noun] a seed
[noun] a kind, type, sort, class, or category
[noun] (taxonomy) a species
【腫】S
[noun] tumor, growth
[suffix] tumor
[suffix] type of cancer
(This term, しゅ, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as しゅ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as しゅ.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 取, 衆, 銖, 趣.)

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