呉

Meaning

呉 centers on giving or doing something for someone, often with a sense of conferring a benefit. The historical kingdom of Wu is a proper-noun application of the same character.

• 呉ご

  Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze)

• 呉服ごふく

  cloth (for Japanese clothes); kimono fabrics; textile; drapery; dry goods; piece goods

• 呉音ごおん

  go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese

• 呉竹くれたけ

  Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)

• 呉越同舟ごえつどうしゅう

  bitter enemies in the same boat; rivals finding themselves together by chance; strange bedfellows

• 呉の母くれのおも

  fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

• 呉りゃるくりゃる

  to receive from another

• 呉るくる

  to give; to let one have; to do for one

• 呉れ手くれて

  donor; one who does something for you

• 呉大学くれだいがく

  Kure University

• 呉服商ごふくしょう

  dry-goods dealer

• 呉服尺ごふくじゃく

  fabric shaku (approx. 36.4 cm)

• 呉服屋ごふくや

  kimono fabrics shop; draper

• 呉服店ごふくてん

  kimono fabrics shop; draper's shop

• 呉服物ごふくもの

  piece; dry-goods; piece goods

• 呉汁ごじる

  gojiru; miso soup with ground soybeans

• 呉牛ごぎゅう

  water buffalo

• 呉牛月に喘ぐごぎゅうつきにあえぐ

  to be overanxious; to worry needlessly

• 呉茱萸ごしゅゆ

  Tetradium ruticarpum (species of deciduous trees)

• 呉語ごご

  Wu Chinese (language); Shanghainese

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