(obsolete) The hentaigana syllable that is used to represent mu in old Japanese text.

(obsolete) The hentaigana syllable that is used to represent ru in old Japanese text.

Alternative spelling of 大贄 (“local offerings to the Emperor or a god”)

mold, pattern / type, model, style

a style, a type / a mold, a pattern, a template / (martial arts) kata (choreographed training exercises) / (noh, kabuki) a particular style of stage movement or choreography

(polite) person

lagoon

shoulder

a shoulder

Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Chiefly thought of as being used for loanwords (cf. カタカナ語 (“loanword”, literally “katakana word”)), it has a number of other uses too, complementing hiragana; see Katakana#Usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia