Synonym of 平仮名

a traditional ordering system for kana / (dated) the rudiments, the fundamentals, the basics (of a subject), the ABCs

mother

a uniform distribution of fat in a piece of meat, especially beef: even marbling

room (of a house or hotel), chamber, apartment, flat / (sumo) a stable where rikishi live and train together under a shisho oyakata (stable master)

赤, 朱, 紅, 緋: (colour) red (reddish), scarlet, crimson, vermilion (vermeil), cinnabar, ruby-red (rubeus), cherry-red, cerise, cardinal-red, carmine, wine-red, claret-red, blood-red (sanguine), coral-red, cochineal-red, rose-red (rosy, damask), brick-red, maroon, rust-red (rusty), rufous-red, gules-red, rufescent, auburn, russet.

Musashi Province: a region of old Japan consisting of modern-day Tokyo, Saitama, and Kanagawa prefectures.

Short for 米刺 (komesashi): a small tool used to extract a sample of rice from a bag in order to test its quality

stem or continuative form of 指す (sasu) [godan]

Shashi (a district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China)