Alternative spelling of メリヤス

(dialectal, Northwestern Kyūshū) a lamp shell, lingulate brachiopod (Lingulidae)

(Hachijō) oriental turtle dove

Armenia (a country in Europe and Asia)

obscure / dark / blind

to long for / to gaze at

speech / to quit

a female (plant or animal)

omega

The katakana syllable メ (me). Its equivalent in hiragana is め (me). It is the thirty-fourth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is マ行エ段 (ma-gyō e-dan, “row ma, section e”).