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Shoji

Definition: Shoji

Shoji

Noun

1. (Japanese) a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Commercial Usage: Shoji

DomainTitle

References

  • Chuo Shoji Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Kyogoku Unyu Shoji Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Okato Shoji Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Shinko Shoji Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Uehara Sei Shoji Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • KOHNAN SHOJI CO., LTD.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Making Shoji (reference)

  • OKATO SHOJI CO., LTD.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • SATO SHOJI CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • SHIMOJIMA CO., LTD. (SHIMOJIMA SHOJI): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Shoji

The following table summarizes the usage of "shoji" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ShojiLast name10078,216
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Shoji

CountryName
Japan

Chuo Shoji Co., Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shoji

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

shoji screen

200

nishio shoji

4

shoji

70

design shoji

4

shoji tabuchi

51

shoji table

4

door shoji

34

build screen shoji

3

shoji lamp

13

make shoji

3

shoji hamada

12

branson shoji

3

shoji paper

10

building shoji

3

japanese shoji screen

9

screen shoji window

3

shoji blind

9

shoji treatment window

2

door shoji sliding

8

japanese shoji

2

shoji tabuchi theater

7

paper rice shoji

2

shoji screen door

6

making shoji

2

shoji tabuchi show

6

shoji toho

2

make screen shoji

6

closet door shoji

2

shoji papers

5

furniture shoji

2

shoji end table

5

outdoor screen shoji

2

screen shoji sliding

4

divider room screen shoji

2

discount screen shoji

4

branson mo shoji tabuchi

2

shoji panel

4

folding screen shoji

2

miyuki shoji

4

house shoji

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Shoji

Language Translations for "shoji"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

障子紙 (shoji paper), 障子の腰 (lower part of a shoji), 障子の桟 (frame of a shoji), 障子に影' す (to project a shadow on a shoji), 雪見障子 (shoji with glass window behind a sliding bottom half), 戸障子 (doors and shoji). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょうじがみ (shoji paper), しょうじのさ" (frame of a shoji), しょうじの"し (lower part of a shoji), しょうじにか''うつす (to project a shadow on a shoji), ゆきみしょうじ (shoji with glass window behind a sliding bottom half), としょうじ (doors and shoji). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ojishay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Shoji

Derivations

Words beginning with "shoji": shojis. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Shoji" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bhaji, hoja, Hoxja, Khodja, Shamji, Shaoqi, shefi, shej, Shijie, Shiomi, Shoei, Shoja, Shojo, Shonjin, Shuhai, Shuhei, Shuji, Shunju, Sohei, soje, soji, sojo, sooji, svoja, Zhuhai. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Shoji

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-i-j-o-s"

-1 letter: josh.

-2 letters: his, ohs.

-3 letters: hi, ho, is, jo, oh, os, sh, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-j-o-s"
 

+1 letter: shojis.

 

+2 letters: joshing.

 

+3 letters: jingoish, johnnies.

 

+4 letters: demijohns, jailhouse, jargonish.

 

+5 letters: jailhouses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Shoji


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 6F 6A 69

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    ---    .---    ..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01101111 01101010 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#111 &#106 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 006F 006A 0069

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374817675

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Names: Frequency
4. Names: Company Usage
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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