ぢよ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぢよ – see the following entry.
【女じょ】1
[noun] a woman, especially an actress or a prostitute
[proper noun] (Chinese astronomy) the Girl, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions
[suffix] (historical) suffixed to names of female figures in the Edo period
(This term, ぢよ (dyo), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as ぢよ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ぢよ.)
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