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ryo

ryo noun: an anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and built up by intervals of major second, major second, minor third, major second, minor third.

Noun (1)

ryo (uncountable)

  1. An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and built up by intervals of major second, major second, minor third, major second, minor third.

Noun (2) capitalized: RYO

RYO (plural RYOs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of roll-your-own.

Forms of ryo

pluralRYOs

Origin of ryo

From Japanese 呂 (ryo).

Questions about ryo

What does ryo mean?
Ryo means an anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and built up by intervals of major second, major second, minor third, major second, minor third.
What part of speech is ryo?
Ryo is a noun.
What is the plural of ryo?
The plural of ryo is RYOs.

Words near ryo in the dictionary

  1. rynersonite
  2. rynge
  3. rynges
  4. Rynn
  5. rynt
  6. ryo
  7. ryoboku
  8. Ryobu
  9. ryokan
  10. ryokans
  11. Ryon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ryo (page history and authors); RYO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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