What is the meaning of ?

The hiragana syllable (ji). Its equivalent in katakana is (ji).

: pillar; prism, cylinder

: earth, dirt; fabric, cloth; territory

: letter, character

: samurai; serve

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: hemorrhoids

: speech

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: a road, a street; attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place; attaches to a time duration, indicating a trip taking that length of time

: at the time of

Attaches to the 未然形 (mizenkei, irrealis or incomplete form) of verbs to form the negative conjectural/volitional, equivalent to modern まい (-mai).

Source: wiktionary.org