a general name for something / the name for a large division in a village or town

large front gate

(honorific) to be

a specific measure used for traditional Japanese textiles: full-breadth cloth, roughly 72 cm wide, twice the width of a 小幅 (kohaba) measure

a male given name

a place name, such as that of Ota City in Gunma Prefecture / a surname

a large port or harbor / a type of mud used as an overcoat for an earthen or mud wall, named for the town of Ōtsu where it was produced / short for 大津馬 (Ōtsu uma), a stage horse from the town of Ōtsu

a surname

major company / front gates of a castle / both arms outstretched

(sumo) ozeki, literally 'great barrier', the second-highest rank in sumo-wrestling, above sekiwake and below yokozuna / a person holding the rank