署長

Chinese

		office; bureau	long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop
trad. (署長)		署	長
simp. (署长)		署	长

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shǔzhǎng

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ ㄓㄤˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu⁵ zoeng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sú-tiúⁿ / sí-tióⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shǔzhǎng [Phonetic: shúzhǎng]
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ ㄓㄤˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shǔjhǎng
  - Wade–Giles: shu³-chang³
  - Yale: shǔ-jǎng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuujaang
  - Palladius: шучжан (šučžan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyu⁵ zoeng²
  - Yale: chyúh jéung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsy⁵ dzoeng²
  - Guangdong Romanization: qu⁵ zêng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyː¹³ t͡sœːŋ³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú-tiúⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: sú-tiúnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sw'dviuo
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiũ⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tiũ⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tiũ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí-tióⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: sí-tiónn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sy'dvioir
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɔ̃⁵³/

Noun

署長

director; commissioner; director-general

Japanese

Kanji in this term
署	長
しょ Grade: 6	ちょう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
署長 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

署(しょ) (sho, “government office”) + 長(ちょう) (-chō, “head, leader”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しょちょー [shòchóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ɕo̞t͡ɕo̞ː]

Noun

署(しょ)長(ちょう) • (shochō) ^{←しよちやう (syotyau)^?}

the head of a government office referred to as a 署(しょ) (sho) (e.g. 警察署(けいさつしょ) (keisatsusho, “police station”), 消防署(しょうぼうしょ) (shōbōsho, “fire station”))

See also

Category:Japanese terms suffixed with 署 read as しょ

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN