茗荷, 蘘荷: myoga or Japanese ginger (Zingiber mioga); a dimwit, an idiot, a stupid person; a kind of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)

to chop, mince / to carve, to cut / to tick away, to keep time

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

cooking

(linguistics) accent (stronger articulation) / (linguistics) intonation / (music) accent, emphasis, stress / (fashion, design) an accessory, an accent piece

to cook, to prepare (food) / to deal with, to handle

Alternative form of 料理

(phonology) the lack of any phonemic pitch accent in certain dialects of Japanese (all words have the same accent)

(phonology) in certain Japanese dialects, pitch accent that is highly inconsistent and unpredictable

(Japanese phonology) an accent kernel/nucleus (the so-called "accented" mora of an utterance, which singly occurs for each utterance and which immediately precedes a drop in pitch from high to low)