(obsolete) Same as あたらし (atarashi) above

"playful writing", a type of orthography expressing an author's cleverness or playful wit. One famous example is to write the expression 出でば (ideba) as 山上復有山者 (Man'yōshū volume 9, poem #1787)

sacrifice / casualty, victim, especially of a disaster

parliamentary seat or seat in a diet (place in which to sit) / such a seat in a figurative sense (membership in a representative body)

Kyūjitai form of 犠牲: sacrifice

imitation, forgery, copy

to forge, to copy

(law) perjury

meeting, conference

to hold a meeting