(cooking) preparation of ingredients

(typography) a set of typographic rules as to how certain characters are not allowed at the start or end of a line during line breaking, for example, a start quote 「 is not allowed at the end of a line, an end quote 」, full stop 。 or small kana ぁ is not allowed at the start, etc.

(disaster prevention) Short for 木造住宅密集地域 (mokuzō jūtaku misshū chiiki, “densely built wooden house area”).

(phonetics) coda

a coccygeal vertebra

a surname

(Chinese astronomy) Tail

a tail

tailwheel

(Chinese mythology) a hole that is said to be located at the bottom of the ocean where all water is endlessly leaking away without ever being exhausted.