(physical or folk belief) preventing or protecting against fires

The hiragana syllable め (me). Its equivalent in katakana is メ (me). It is the thirty-fourth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ま行え段 (ma-gyō e-dan, “row ma, section e”).

目, 眼: eye / 目: small hole, like those inherent to a net-like material (between the warp and the weft) / 目: short for 賽の目 (sai no me, “dice pip”). / 目: (by extension) experience

目: -st, -nd, -rd, or -th, for ordinal numbers (e.g. 8th or eighth, 9th or ninth) / 目: visually prominent feature of something

芽: bud, sprout, shoot / 芽: the germ of an idea, an inkling / 芽: (biology) a bird embryo: more specifically, as found on the yolk of an egg, the blastodisk, the germinal disk, the embryonic disk

奴: derogatory suffix attached to people's names or words that refer to people, animals, etc.

dried squid or dried cuttlefish used for food, vaguely similar to jerky / the Japanese flying squid or Todarodes pacificus, commonly used after being dried

入り目: expenses

滅: extinction, destruction; nirvana; death; nothingness; one of the Four Noble Truths, the path to nirvana

手目: cheating, deception