きゆう

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きゆう – see the following entries.
杞憂
groundless fear
Alternative spelling
き憂
癸酉
Water Rooster, the tenth term of the sexagenary cycle
己酉
Earth Rooster, the forty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle
(This term, きゆう (kiyū), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
きゅう3
a palace
(traditional music of China and Japan) the keynote or tonic of a musical scale, such as do in the do re mi scale notation of solfège
Short for 宮刑: literally “palace punishment”, this consisted of castration for men and sequestration in the palace for women
(astronomy, astrology) a zodiac sign or house, defined as one-twelfth of the circle of the ecliptic
(This term, きゆう (kyuu), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as きゆう, see Category:Japanese kanji read as きゆう.)