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
written letters; handwriting
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
tape transcription; transcribing from recorded tape; audio-typing
Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic character
the Japanese syllabary symbols
ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script
Greek character; Greek characters
text entry; character entry
English letter; alphabetic character
fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet
ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters
phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script
character encoding (e.g. JIS, Unicode, etc.); character code
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message
Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician character
drawn lettering; sound effects lettering
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
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.)
algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
length of a character string
shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
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)
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)
picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
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
Universal Character Set; UCS
optical character reader; OCR
optical character reader; OCR
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
character display (device); character-imaging device
numeric character reference
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)
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"