a chariot: a horse-drawn vehicle with two wheels and usually one or two riders

orientation (events to orient new students at a school)

a waterway, more specifically, a navigable channel / a wake (path left behind by a passing ship on the water's surface)

(phonology, orthography, grammar) the 5x10 table used for arranging all the 47 kana used for the 五十音 (literally “fifty sounds”), whose 列 (“columns”) are arranged by the vowels (/a/, /i/, /ɯ/, /e/, /o/) and 行 (“rows”) are arranged by the consonants (Ø, /k/, /s/, /t/, /n/, /h/, /m/, /j/, /ɾ/, /w/; voiced obstruents and /p/ are customarily not included because they were rarely distinguished in writing); columns are ranked by 段 (“grade”), with the vowel /a/ being the highest grade and the vowel /o/ being the lowest; the missing cells of the や行 (“ya-row”) and わ行 (“wa-row”) are filled with い/イ (i), え/エ (e) and う/ウ (u) taken from the あ行 (“a-row”), in order to represent classical grammatical inflection with modern text (or alternatively, artificially filled with rare kana such as 𛀆/𛄠 (yi), 𛀁/𛄡 (ye) and 𛄟/𛄢 (wu))

brioche

(linguistics) Synonym of 同音異義語 (dōon igigo, “homophone”) (words with the same pronunciation)

a surcharge on imports

Alternative form of 栗きんとん, confection made from chestnuts and sugar.

Synonym of ゴールデン・ゲート・ブリッジ (Gōruden Gēto Burijji, “Golden Gate Bridge”)

Clipping of 金剛般若波羅蜜多経 (Kongō Hannya Haramitakyō, “Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra”); the Diamond Sutra