ソウ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. layer; stratum; seam; bed
2. class; stratum; bracket; group
3. sheaf
Counter
4. counter for stories (of a building)
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (101 in total)
high-rise (building); multistory; multistoried; high (altitude); upper (atmosphere, air current, etc.)
very; extremely; extreme; excessive; splendid; impressive
low-rise (architecture); low-level; low-class
surface; outer layer
stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste
lower layer; layer beneath; lower strata (classes)
upper stratum (classes, stories, storeys); upper layer; layer above
middle part; medium depth (water); medium layer; medium-size; mid-level; medium-rise (building)
wealthy people; the rich
clientele; customer stratum
laminating; lamination layer
fault; dislocation; gap; discrepancy
age range; age-group; age bracket
underclasses; poorest segment of the population; the poor
each stratum; each class
multilayer
multistoried; multilayered
the middle class
readership; target audience (of a magazine)
extreme height; high-rise (i.e. building)
ruling class
stratum of society
outer layers
housewife demographic; housewives
multi-layered; multi-tiered; multi-storied
base support (e.g. for a party in an election); substrate; load bearing layer; supporting layer
purchasers; customer base; market (for a product)
ionosphere
upper level; upper layer
ozone layer
the intellectual class
inner layers
wealthy people; the rich
fatty layer; layer of fat
low income group; low income class
tall building
air layer
intellectuals; intelligentsia; educated class
stratum of loam
base layer; substratum; binder course
mother-of-pearl
customer base; constituency; customer segment; patron base; clientele
lower level
lower classes; proletariat; underclass
stratified
layer of clay; clay stratum
stratocumulus
unaffiliated voters; floating voters; swinging voters
alluvium; alluvial stratum
inversion layer
physical layer; PHY
sedimentary layer
fossil bed
monolayer; single layer; single story (storey)
presheaf; anterior layer
(geol) group
diluvium; diluvial formation
laminar flow
medium and high-rise (buildings, apartments, etc.)
boundary layer
magnetic layer
type of audience
lithological layer; rock strata; rock formation
climax (rhetoric); gradation
layering; stratification; sheafification
cambium layer; formative layer
stratum corneum; horny layer; cornified layer
layer-management
management level; job level
granular layer; stratum granulosum
permeable layer; pervious layer
succession of strata; stratigraphy
oil strata
wealthy merchant class
stratigraphy
overstory (overstorey); canopy layer; tree stratum
coal seam; coal bed
stratification; classification; (data) distribution
bottom water (depth: 4000+ meters)
understory (understorey)
herbaceous layer
signalling layer
session layer
data link layer
sublayer
Kennelly-Heaviside layer
atomic layer epitaxy; ALE; atomic layer deposition; ALD
gley; gley soil; glei
many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; (lit.) the tower of nine storeys (stories) rose from a small heap of earth
destitute poor class; the extremely poor; people below the poverty line
Examples (1 in total)
One fifth of the earth's surface is covered by permafrost.