baguette, French bread, French stick (a variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape)

sunny spell in the rainy season

musical performance / a kind of geza music in kabuki, imitating gagaku, performed in scenes like palaces and temples

The hiragana syllable そ (so). Its equivalent in katakana is ソ (so). It is the fifteenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is さ行お段 (sa-gyō o-dan, “row sa, section o”).