(obsolete, phonetics, phonology) Synonym of 子音 (shiin, “a consonant”)

sound; echo; voice

a sound / when used with a "hear" verb, a rumor or fame / news, tidings / a reply, response

father

a surname

(obsolete) one's own father

father / father figure / uncle / old man, elderly man

(honorific) old man

(informal, possibly dialect) one's own father / (by later extension) the head or master of an establishment such as a teahouse, boathouse, etc.

(archaic) one's own father