an origin, cause / a type, class / an interest, appeal

a seed / a kind, type, sort, class, or category / (taxonomy) a species

language, speech

one day

school grammar / (specifically) Japanese school grammar, based on Shinkichi Hashimoto's work and now universally employed in Japanese schools and dictionaries.

(grammar) solecism

a shape / a form / a pattern, die, or model from which copies are made / collateral for borrowed money / on a coin, the side with writing on it

(kabuki, theater) Short for 女形 (onnagata)., a female role played by a male actor in kabuki theater

(affixed to nouns): the shape or form of the affixed noun / (affixed to on'yomi nouns): a typical example of the affixed noun; the type of the affixed noun

shape or form / shapeliness: see 形有り (katachiari) / form, as opposed to substance