letter (of alphabet); character; writing
literally; to the letter; literal
two characters; two letters; (arch.) garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); (arch.) Chinese chives
dial (on timepiece, meter, etc.); letter board (e.g. on typewriter, writing aide for the disabled, etc.); character board
first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence); initials (of one's name)
uppercase letter; capital letter; large character; large writing; the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year
four characters; four letters
emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph; ASCII art
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language
ancient script; ancient character; ancient alphabet
number of characters; number of letters; word count
five characters; five letters; five-syllable verse of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.; first five syllables of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.
corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text
emoticon; smiley; kaomoji
hieroglyph; hieroglyphic character
character information; character data; textual data
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
ornamental writing (esp. initial letters); decorative lettering; fancy script
lowercase letter; small letter
four-character compound word (usu. idiomatic)
one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
woman's handwriting; hiragana
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
handwritten letter; handwritten character
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
written letters; handwriting
tape transcription; transcribing from recorded tape; audio-typing
Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic character
the Japanese syllabary symbols
Greek character; Greek characters
English letter; alphabetic character
text entry; character entry
ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script
fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet
ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters
character encoding (e.g. JIS, Unicode, etc.); character code
phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message
Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician character
writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips)
lettering on the spine of a book
Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew letter
drawn lettering; sound effects lettering
ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)
gold letters; letters written in gold paint
block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
writing system using unconventional characters and symbols, esp. used by young women in texting
beautifully written (Chinese) character
entry kanji in a kanji dictionary; capital letter; matrix (printing); kanji corresponding to furigana
silver-gilt letters; silvery letters
woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt); single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath)
man's handwriting; kanji; Chinese characters
Latin alphabet; Latin character
multibyte character; multibyte encoding; variable-width encoding
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
written language; literary language
wooden spoon; ladle; rice scoop
Russian alphabet; Russian characters
to distort; to parody; to make a pun
four-letter word (esp. in English)
Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)
half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
length of a character string
algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression
text decoration (e.g. character and font effects, underline, etc.)
word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink)
ghost character (apocryphal JIS kanji); phantom character
platform-dependent character
hairpiece; false hair; switch; (arch.) hair
compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications); kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)
pre-literate society; non-literate society
full-width character; regular character in the JIS, Unicode, etc. standards
linear script (e.g. Linear A, Linear B)
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts
reading classical Chinese aloud without trying to understand the meaning; reading a kanji compound using the Japanese pronunciation of each of its characters
demotic (ancient Egyptian script)
dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary
optical character recognition; OCR
field-separator character
stroke character generator
partial (character) string; substring
Japanese syllabary symbols; kana
upper-case letters; upper-case alphabetics
magnetic ink character recognition; MICR
Magnetic Ink Character Reader; Magnetic Ink Character Recognition; MICR
Magnetic Character Reader; MCR
display character entity set
definitional character entity set
stroke character generator
Asahi characters; simplified kanji formerly used by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper
specific character data entity
named character reference
phonetic symbol; phonogram
variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)
character expansion factor
the word impossible is not in my dictionary
semasio-phonetic character (combining semantic and phonetic components)
optical character recognition; OCR
function character identification parameter
optical character reader; OCR
optical character reader; OCR
Universal Character Set; UCS
coded character set; code
featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system
syntax-reference character set
International Phonetic Alphabet; IPA
optical character recognition; OCR
quoted (character) string
significant SGML character
International Phonetic Alphabet; IPA
replaceable character data
numeric character reference
character display (device); character-imaging device
writing style used to write the rankings
empty string; null string
knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu
character encoding scheme
hidden character; non-printable character
record boundary character
format effector; layout character
transmission control character
character-coded-data-element; CC data element
block check character; BCC
Etruscan character; Etruscan alphabet
Dongba script (used by the Naxi People in southern China); Tomba script; Tompa script
Cretan script (Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B)
Sinai inscriptions; proto-Sinaitic script
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
triangular pattern of objects
blue letter style; comparatively mature fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in blue)
picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
mirror writing; mirrored script
Chinese characters; kanji
quipu; khipu; talking knots
double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height
ancient seal-script character
ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period)
hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"