law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation ; vinaya (rules for the monastic community) ; Ritsu (school of Buddhism) ; lüshi (style of Chinese poem) ; (musical) pitch ; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ; step (in traditional Eastern music, corresponding to a Western semitone)