close friend, bosom buddy / crony, chum

a noisy strait or narrows where the rushing of the tides causes noisy whirlpools / Short for 鳴門巻き (narutomaki): a kamaboko fishcake with a whirlpool design

a surname / Short for 鳴門市 (Naruto-shi): A city in northwestern Tokushima Prefecture / Short for 鳴門海峡 (Naruto-kaikyō): Naruto Strait, famous for its eponymous whirlpools

(cooking, colloquial) edible 若布 (wakame) seaweed used for cooking

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

(polite) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

a personal or private matter / (by extension) selfishness

(formal) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

personal, private / secret

a personal or private matter / selfishness / privacy, secrecy / (women's speech, obsolete) a brother-in-law