並び

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 並び is read as ならび and means “arrangement” and “sequence”.
• Basic usage: It denotes rearranging chairs and finding a cipher rule in a sequence of characters.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 椅子の並び / 文字の並び
  • Use 椅子の並び for spatial arrangement and 文字の並び for an ordered sequence.