"jō" meaning in English

See in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: jōs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} jō (plural jōs)
  1. An approximately 1.28 m (4.18 foot) long wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts. Wikipedia link: jō Derived forms: jōjutsu, jōdō, aiki-jō Related terms: bō
    Sense id: en-jō-en-noun-XqIUeKqT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for jō meaning in English (0.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jōs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jō (plural jōs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "jōjutsu"
        },
        {
          "word": "jōdō"
        },
        {
          "word": "aiki-jō"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An approximately 1.28 m (4.18 foot) long wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts."
      ],
      "id": "en-jō-en-noun-XqIUeKqT",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bō"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "jō"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jō"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "jōjutsu"
    },
    {
      "word": "jōdō"
    },
    {
      "word": "aiki-jō"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jōs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jō (plural jōs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bō"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms spelled with Ō",
        "English terms spelled with ◌̄"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An approximately 1.28 m (4.18 foot) long wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "jō"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jō"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.