I really like how the word "yoko" is pronounced, and I'll like to use it in my bussiness. I think that my bussiness will be named "yoko garage".
Do you know what yoko means? Does it have any bad or good meanings/concepts related to it?
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Sign up to join this communityI really like how the word "yoko" is pronounced, and I'll like to use it in my bussiness. I think that my bussiness will be named "yoko garage".
Do you know what yoko means? Does it have any bad or good meanings/concepts related to it?
Yoko (横) is a fairly generic term meaning "side".
However, there are some less common, negative meanings associated with this word meaning "wrong", "invalid", "illogical", and "disorder". It also has a sense in which a prostitute to leave a client in secret to meet another man ("yoko ni iku"). And of course there are negative terms derived from this as well such as yokoshima meaning "evil" or "wicked".
http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E3%82%88%E3%81%93&eng=&dict=edict
Maybe? Where did you hear the word? Sure it's not yooko or some such?