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

a male given name

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

(honorific) to be

a male given name

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

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

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

Archaic form of 大根 (daikon). / the fundamental root or origin of something