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Kyo Ya, was a Japanese restaurant in New York City; Three villages in County Durham, England: East Kyo; West Kyo; New Kyo; Kyo Burn, the name of the section of the River Team, near the villages; another name for Kyoto, a city in Japan; KYO, the Indian Railways station code for Khandikar railway station, Assam, India
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. Interjection Yo is a slang interjection, commonly associated with North American English. It was popularized by the Italian-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s. Although often used as a greeting and often deployed at the beginning of a sentence, yo may also ...
A term of endearment. Used by school teachers addressing their students, or by older co-workers to younger men. Chan (ちゃん) Little or Dear A term of endearment. Most frequently used for girls and small children, close friends, or lovers. Occasionally may be used to refer to a boy if that is his nickname. Tan (たん) Lil Babies, moe ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
In cases where a hiragana is represented by a pair of symbols each pair (or "digraph" e.g. "kyo" (きょ)) equates to a single on. When viewed this way, the term "ji" ("character") is used in Japanese. [2] In English-language discussions of Japanese poetry, the more familiar word "syllable" is sometimes used.
The term's origin and etymology are unknown. Anime columnist John Oppliger has outlined several popular theories describing how the term would have stemmed from the name of anime heroines, such as Hotaru Tomoe from Sailor Moon (Tomoe is written as 土萌, relevant kanji is the same) or Moe Sagisawa from the 1993 anime Kyōryū Wakusei. [6]
Kyū (Japanese: 級, ) is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, levels or degrees of proficiency or experience.
In Philip Kapleau's The Three Pillars of Zen, [3] Hakuun Yasutani explained the term as the combination of "ma" meaning devil and "kyo" meaning the objective world. This character for "devil" can also refer to Mara , the Buddhist "tempter" figure; and the character kyo can mean simply region, condition or place.