惣

Meaning

惣 centers on the idea of encompassing everything: all, the whole, or totality. It is a less common character used for the concept of 'all' in certain contexts.

• 惣菜そうざい

  small dish (served as a part of an ordinary household meal); side dish

• 惣そう

  rural local self-government (Muromachi period)

• 惣社そうじゃ

  shrine enshrining several gods

• 惣嫁そうか

  streetwalker (Edo period)

• 惣無事令そうぶじれい

  1585 edict by Toyotomi Hideyoshi which banned war between feudal lords in Japan

• 惣管領そうかんりょう

  (hist.) governor-general

• 惣菜パンそうざいパン

  dressed bread; bread to which something has been added (sandwich, pirogi, etc.); stuffed bread (rolls, buns, etc.)

• 惣菜屋そうざいや

  shop selling prepared food

• 惣菜店そうざいてん

  shop selling prepared food

• 惣領制そうりょうせい

  sōryō system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)

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