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shoji

shoji noun: a door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.

shoji: a door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional...
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Noun

shoji (plural shojis or shoji)

  1. A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.

Proper noun capitalized: Shoji

Shoji

  1. A male given name from Japanese.

Forms of shoji

pluralshojis
pluralshoji
alternative formshojii
alternative formsoji
alternative formsojii

Origin of shoji

Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji).

Borrowed from Japanese しょうじ (Shōji).

Questions about shoji

What does shoji mean?
Shoji means a door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.
What part of speech is shoji?
Shoji can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of shoji?
The plural of shoji is shojis.

Words near shoji in the dictionary

  1. shohet
  2. shohetim
  3. shohets
  4. Shohn
  5. Shoigu
  6. shoji
  7. shojis
  8. shojo
  9. shojosei
  10. Shoka
  11. shoke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoji (page history and authors); Shoji (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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