しゅ

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

Japanese

しゅ • (shu)

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 (shu), 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.)