letter (of an alphabet); character; writing
literally; to the letter; literal
two characters; two letters; (arch.) garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); (arch.) Chinese chives
dial (of a meter, watch, etc.); face (of a clock); keyboard (on a typewriter, etc.); letter board (communication aid for people unable to speak); communication 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
ancient script; ancient character; ancient alphabet
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language
number of characters; character 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
gold lettering; gilt letters
lowercase letter; small letter
character information; character data; textual data
ornamental writing (esp. initial letters); decorative lettering; fancy script
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion; (arch.) spring onion
four-character compound word (usu. idiomatic)
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
woman's handwriting; hiragana
written letters; handwriting
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
Yi script (used to write the Yi languages)
handwritten letter; handwritten character
Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letter
ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script
text entry; character entry
transcription (of speech to text)
the Japanese syllabary symbols
Greek letter; Greek alphabet
English letter; alphabetic character
appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning
phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script
boldface; bold-type; thick characters
fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet
ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
character encoding; character code
Arabic script; Arabic letter
arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message
Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew letter
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips)
jindai moji; forged syllabic characters purported to have been used in ancient Japan
kanji (as opposed to kana)
hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
gold letters; letters written in gold paint
Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician character
drawn lettering; sound effects lettering
lettering on the spine of a book
space character; whitespace character; blank character
block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
Chinese characters; hanzi; kanji
Latin alphabet; Latin character
beautifully written (Chinese) character
writing system using unconventional characters and symbols, esp. used by young women in texting
written language; literary language
entry kanji in a kanji dictionary; capital letter; matrix (printing); kanji corresponding to furigana
silver-gilt letters; silvery letters
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt); single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath)
man's handwriting; kanji; Chinese characters
multibyte character; multibyte encoding; variable-width encoding
four-letter word (esp. in English)
wooden spoon; ladle; rice scoop
Russian alphabet; Russian characters
to parody; to make a parody of; to pun (on); to twist; to distort
character layout; typesetting
Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)
half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)
algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression
length of a character string
empty string; null string
shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
text decoration (e.g. character and font effects, underline, etc.)
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
ancient seal-script character
word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
enclosed character; circled alphanumeric
Aramaic alphabet; Aramaic letter
red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink)
ghost character; kanji of unknown origin included in the JIS X 0208 character set
platform-dependent character
hairpiece; false hair; switch; (arch.) hair
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)
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
stroke character generator
field-separator character
partial (character) string; substring
Japanese syllabary symbols; kana
upper-case letters (of the English alphabet)
koseki unified characters; set of characters approved for use in family names
handwriting recognition; handwritten text recognition
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
specific character data entity
Asahi characters; simplified kanji formerly used by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper
named character reference
variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)
phonetic symbol; phonogram
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
Universal Character Set; UCS
optical character reader; OCR
featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system
coded character set; code
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
lower-case letters (of the English alphabet)
character display (device); character-imaging device
numeric character reference
writing style used to write the rankings
empty string; null string
character encoding scheme
knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu
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
theory of written language
blue letter style; comparatively mature fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in blue)
mirror writing; mirrored script
Chinese characters; kanji
quipu; khipu; talking knots
double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height
reading of a character; pronunciation of a character
ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period)
hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"