こうそ

See also: こうぞ and ごうそ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こうそ – see the following entries.
酵素
[noun] (biochemistry) enzyme
高祖
[noun] [from 1180] a remote ancestor
[noun] [from 1180] (more narrowly): an ancestor four generations back: a great-great-grandparent, a grandparent of a grandparent
[noun] [from 1120] (Chinese history) the founder of a dynasty
[noun] [from 1257] (Buddhism) the founder of a sect
公訴
[noun] (public) prosecution; indictment
控訴
[noun] the first appeal to a higher court
[verb] to file such an appeal
江蘇
[proper noun] Jiangsu (a province of China, northeast of the mouth of the Yangtze River)
(This term, こうそ (kōso), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 公租, 皇祖, 皇祚, 貢租, 後素.)