量りょう

noun, noun, used as a suffix

amount; quantity; volume; capacity; portion

Broad word for how much of something there is. It can stand alone as a noun, as in 量が多い, or appear suffix-like in compounds such as 仕事量, 運動量, 消費量, and 食事量.

• 仕し事ごとの量りょうが多おおすぎる。

  The amount of work is too much.

• ご飯はんの量りょうを少すくなめにしてください。

  Please make the portion of rice a little smaller.

• 一いち日にちの運うん動どう量りょうを増ふやした。

  I increased my daily amount of exercise.

noun

generosity; magnanimity; tolerance

Rare as a standalone modern noun in this sense; the ordinary expression is usually 度量, especially in phrases like 度量が大きい. This sense refers to a person's inner capacity to accept others.

See also: 度量

• 古ふるい文ぶん章しょうでは、「量りょうが大おおきい人ひと」が寛かん大だいな人ひとを意い味みすることがある。

  In older writing, 量が大きい人 can mean a generous or magnanimous person.

noun

pramana; means of valid knowledge

Specialized term in Indian philosophy for a means by which accurate or valid knowledge is obtained; unrelated to the everyday sense of physical amount except by shared spelling.

• インド哲てつ学がくで、量りょうは正ただしい認にん識しきを得える手しゅ段だんを指さす。

  In Indian philosophy, 量 refers to a means of obtaining valid knowledge.