両りょう

prefix, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

both; the two

Prefix or no-adjective meaning 'both' or 'the two', used with paired items like hands, parents, sides, etc.

• 両りょう親しんは旅りょ行こうに行いっています。

  Both of my parents are on a trip.

• 両りょう手てに花はなを持もっている。

  She is holding flowers in both hands.

counter

counter for vehicles; counter for train cars

Counter for vehicles, especially train cars or carriages. Also used for other vehicles in some contexts.

See also: 輛 (りょう)

• この電でん車しゃは8両りょう編へん成せいです。

  This train is made up of eight cars.

• 駐ちゅう車しゃ場じょうには車くるまが3両りょう止とまっている。

  Three vehicles are parked in the parking lot.

noun

ryō (weight unit); tael

Traditional unit of weight for gold, silver, and drugs, roughly 15–19 g (4–5 monme).

See also: 匁 (もんめ)

• この金きん貨かは1両りょうの重おもさがある。

  This gold coin weighs one ryō.

noun

ryō (currency unit)

Pre-Meiji currency unit, originally the value of one ryō of gold.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、1両りょうは大たい金きんだった。

  In the Edo period, one ryō was a large sum of money.

noun

ryō (fabric measure)

Traditional measure of fabric, equal to 2 tan.

See also: 反 (たん)

• 一いっ反たんの布ぬのは約やく0.5両りょうにあたる。

  One tan of cloth is about half a ryō.

noun

ryō (archaic weight unit)

Archaic unit of weight under the ritsuryō system, 1/16 kin, about 42–43 g.

See also: 斤

• 律りつ令りょう制せいでは、1両りょうは約やく42グラムと定さだめられていた。

  Under the ritsuryō system, one ryō was set at about 42 grams.

counter

counter for suits of clothing, armor sets

Archaic counter for suits of clothing or sets of armor. Now obsolete.

See also: 領 (りょう)

• 古こ文もん書じょには「鎧よろい一いち両りょう」と記しるされている。

  In old documents, it is written as 'one ryō of armor'.