a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber / a shuttle for weaving with a loom (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)

a surname

two persons / a couple, pair

shaku (measurement) / measure

the shaku, "metal shaku", or Japanese foot: a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun (寸) or ¹⁄₁₀ jō (丈), standardized as ¹⁰⁄₃₃ of a meter

a bamboo measure

read

the six continents (Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania)

brothel

shakuhachi, a Japanese end-blown flute / (by extension) any object (for example, paper or silk) measuring one shaku and eight sun (approximately 54.5 centimeters) / (vulgar, dated) fellatio, oral sex