borrowing, a debt, a loan (for the borrower, not the lender) / (obsolete) in the Edo period, a system for arranging house calls by prostitutes

lodging, inn / home

lodging, inn / house, home

coastline, shoreline / a railroad that follows a coastline

(obsolete) Synonym of コートジボワール (Kōto Jibowāru, “Côte d'Ivoire”): Ivory Coast (a country in West Africa)

Kyūjitai form of 仮借

the use of 万葉仮名 (man'yōgana) to spell sounds in Old Japanese, irrespective of the kanji's meaning

using the 訓読(くんよ)み (kun'yomi, “native Japanese reading”) of kanji to represent 大和(やまと)言(こと)葉(ば) (yamato kotoba, “native Japanese words”), irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning

brothel

(Chinese astronomy) the Hairy Head constellation, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, corresponds to the Pleiades in English.