name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.
2. 2
   a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A male given name from Japanese.

Example

More examples

"Walls have ears, shoji have eyes."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese しょうじ (Shōji).

Related phrases

rice paper

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.