Jo

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Jo can mean:

Name

• A name, short for "Joann","Jodie" "Joanne", "Joanna", "Johanna", "Josephine", "Joseph", Joanassie.
• A Japanese given or family name (Jō or Joe).
• Alternate spelling of Cho (Korean name)

Name of Person
Given name

• Jô, a Brazilian football player
• Joe Hisaishi
• Jo Kamisaku
• Joe Odagiri

Fictional characters
Given name

• Joe Kido of Digimon

Family name

• Naoki Jo of Battle Royale II
• Hyeonsu Jo, one of the Korean names

Name of Fictional Characters

• Jo is one of the main characters of Burst Angel
• One of Louisa May Alcott's characters in Little Women and its sequels.
• Jo Polniaczek from The Facts of Life
• Jo, the nickname for Joanne Gardner, lead character from Search for Tomorrow

Games

• A Star Wars game called Jedi Outcast.
• Short form acronym for Joint Operations: Escalation or Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, NovaLogic's first person shooter computer games.

Slang

• Abbreviation for Jerk-Off, slang for male masturbation.
• A German slang-word for yes.
• Jo can also be a variation of the slang term "Yo" as in "Jo, Whats up?"

Words in languages other than english

• "Yes" in Czech
• jó, "good" in Hungarian
• "Yes" in Luxembourg
• A Saarländisch word for the German "Ja", that is English for "Yes"
• Already, in Finnish
• A Scots word meaning "loved one".
• In British slang "jo" can mean a derogatory term considered comparable to "fool".

Other

• A four-foot long wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts. See Jo (weapon), and quarterstaff.