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personal meeting (esp. used by females)

personal meeting (esp. used by females)

woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt); single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath)

emoticon; smiley; kaomoji

literally; to the letter; literal

Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text

ancient seal-script character

character string

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

four characters; four letters

emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph; ASCII art

emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph; ASCII art

ancient script; ancient character; ancient alphabet

runes

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.

five characters; five letters; five-syllable verse of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.; first five syllables of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.

picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)

corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text

hieroglyph; hieroglyphic character

gold lettering; gilt letters

one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion; (arch.) spring onion

rounded handwriting

lowercase letter; small letter

character information; character data; textual data

ornamental writing (esp. initial letters); decorative lettering; fancy script

hieroglyph; hieroglyphics

mirror writing

character written by brush; brush-stroke character

the Japanese syllabary symbols

woman's handwriting; hiragana

Greek letter; Greek alphabet

Greek letter; Greek alphabet

Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)

Yi script (used to write the Yi languages)

handwritten letter; handwritten character

Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letter

graphic size

ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script

text entry; character entry

transcription (of speech to text)

appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning

English letter; alphabetic character

dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary

phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script

boldface; bold-type; thick characters

cuneiform (writing)

cuneiform (writing)

cuneiform (writing)

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

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

gold letters; letters written in gold paint

hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)

Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician character

lettering on the spine of a book

space character; whitespace character; blank character

Litsea cubeba

block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character

character data

Tangut script

Chinese characters; hanzi; kanji

Latin alphabet; Latin character

ogham; ogham script

writing system using unconventional characters and symbols, esp. used by young women in texting

Tibetan character

newline character

beautifully written (Chinese) character

entry kanji in a kanji dictionary; capital letter; matrix (printing); kanji corresponding to furigana

written language; literary language

silver-gilt letters; silvery letters

man's handwriting; kanji; Chinese characters

multibyte character; multibyte encoding; variable-width encoding

character layout; typesetting

Russian alphabet; Russian characters

oracle bone script

control character

nonnumeric literal

half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)

multicharacter

Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)

hieroglyph

algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression

Japanese character

text decoration (e.g. character and font effects, underline, etc.)

tab character

symbolic-character

delimiter

special character

character recognition

idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words

Khitan script

Jurchen script

shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script

syllabic character

word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"

Aramaic alphabet; Aramaic letter

character position

ghost character; kanji of unknown origin included in the JIS X 0208 character set

red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink)

platform-dependent character

enclosed character; circled alphanumeric

segmental script

four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)

teletext broadcasting

full-width character; regular character in the JIS, Unicode, etc. standards

Devanagari script

Devanagari script

letter spacing; tracking

alphanumeric character

open face

height of character

width of character

character spacing

character reference

character number

character width

character body

name character

machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character

machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character

pre-literate society; non-literate society

single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts

linear script (e.g. Linear A, Linear B)

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)

Siddham script

phonetic symbols

backspace character; BS

optical character

character reader

teletext

combination lock

character encoding scheme

character coding system

semasio-phonetic character (combining semantic and phonetic components)

writing style used to write the rankings

Hangul (Korean script)

Brahmi script

Sinhala alphabet

accented character

escape character; ESC

graphics character

code extension character

dedicated data character

data character

drive letter

null character

field-separator character

fill character

block check character; BCC

markup character

metacharacter

wildcard character

subscript

shunned character

space character

function character

record boundary character

punctuation character

delimiter characters

check character

superscript

aligned around

magnetic ink character

Magnetic Character Reader; MCR

final character

fill character

superscript

superscript

graphic character

device control character

multibyte character

replacement character

intermediate character

double width character

relation character

nonprinting character

illegal character

additional character

sign character

carriage return

multi-byte character

separator character

collating sequence

character class

character set

character text

character data entity

character pitch

character repertoire

character rotation

character orientation

character base line

character base vector

character storage unit

character boundary

character special file

nonnumeric item

character height

character entity set

character class

character decoration

character set

character sequence

character path

character manipulation

character image

character generator

character display (device); character-imaging device

character-coded-data-element; CC data element

missing character

character up vector

editing character

padding character

name start character

the word impossible is not in my dictionary

knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu

leading character

Etruscan character; Etruscan alphabet

oracle bone script

Dongba script (used by the Naxi People in southern China); Tomba script; Tompa script

variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)

logogram; logograph

logogram; logograph

Japanese syllabary symbols; kana

Cretan script (Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B)

quipu; khipu; talking knots

control character

Sinai inscriptions; proto-Sinaitic script

triangular pattern of objects

phonetic symbol; phonogram

mirror writing; mirrored script

Manchu script

hidden character; non-printable character

double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height

Asahi characters; simplified kanji formerly used by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper

featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system

image overlaid with text

Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands

Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands

cuneiform (writing)

theory of written language

koseki unified characters; set of characters approved for use in family names

mother; wife

squid

hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"

koi carp; flour

fish; mackerel

sushi

you

garlic (Allium sativum)

embarrassed; ashamed of