1. call; summons; paging; curtain call
2. call; invocation
3. usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.
4. telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached
5. box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
6. high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period)
7. unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)