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

horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language

Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)

arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

Litsea cubeba

① 比喩や誇張ではなく。

character string

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)

large character; large writing

four characters; four letters

① 事柄を絵によって表現した記号や文字。

ancient script; ancient character; ancient alphabet

runes

number of characters; number of letters; word count

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.

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

① 電子メールなどで用いる、記号や文字を組み合わせて顔に見えるようにしたもの。主にその顔の表情によって書き手の感情を表すために用いる。「(^-^)」「(^^;」など。

① ものの形をかたどってできた文字。また、文字体系。② 六書の象形の方法で作られた漢字。

one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)

gold or gilt letters

character information; character data; textual data

personal meeting (esp. used by females)

rounded handwriting

hieroglyph; hieroglyphics

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

mirror writing

① ギリシア文字やそれから派生した文字体系（ローマ字、キリル文字等）で、文頭、固有名詞のはじめなど以外通常の表記に使う文字。② 仮名における、「捨て仮名」又は「小書き（文字）」の別称。③ 哲学や評論などで、「大文字」と対比して、日常性や個別性などの意味を担うものを指す換喩。

woman's handwriting; hiragana

character written by brush; brush-stroke character

Greek character; Greek characters

Greek character; Greek characters

handwritten letter; handwritten character

the Japanese syllabary symbols

tape transcription; transcribing from recorded tape; audio-typing

Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic character

graphic size

① 漢字を分類した辞書。

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

English letter; alphabetic character

ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script

text entry; character entry

ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters

fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet

cuneiform (writing)

cuneiform (writing)

cuneiform (writing)

character encoding (e.g. JIS, Unicode, etc.); character code

phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script

Arabic script

hieroglyph; hieroglyphics

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

ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)

space character

gold letters; letters written in gold paint

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

Tangut script

hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)

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

Tibetan character

newline character

character data

beautifully written (Chinese) character

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

silver-gilt letters; silvery letters

man's handwriting; kanji; Chinese characters

① ヨーロッパの多くの言語で使われる文字体系・アルファベットの一種であり、ラテン語において使用されたものを起源とするもの。日本語で単にアルファベットと言う場合、多くはこれを指す。

multibyte character; multibyte encoding; variable-width encoding

written language; literary language

Russian alphabet; Russian characters

① 中国古代の殷代に用いられた漢字の祖形又は書体。主に、亀の甲羅や牛等の肩甲骨を用いた亀卜と呼ばれる占いにおいて、その占う内容を甲羅や骨に刻んだもの。かなり、象形性が残るものの、文字としての抽象性を有し、単なる模様の域から抜け出ている。甲骨文・亀甲獣骨文字とも。

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)

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

hieroglyph

Japanese character

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

tab character

symbolic-character

delimiter

special character

Khitan script

Jurchen script

algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression

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

Aramaic letter

character position

character recognition

ghost character (apocryphal JIS kanji); phantom character

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

platform-dependent character

① 六書の会意の方法で作られた漢字。

① 表音文字のうち、ひとつひとつの文字が音節を表す文字体系で、かなはその一例となる。

Ninja 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; alphameric

open face

height of character

width of character

character spacing

character reference

character width

missing character

character body

name character

machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character

machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character

pre-literate society; non-literate society

① 古代のケルト語の表記に用いられたアイルランドで最古のアルファベット。オガムとはこの文字の伝説的創始者の名前。通常、縦書きでオガム文字の文章は下から上に読む。石碑に刻まれた碑文が現代に残る。

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

shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script

demotic (ancient Egyptian script)

Siddham script

phonetic symbols

backspace character; BS

optical character

character reader

teletext

combination lock

character encoding scheme

character coding system

① 六書の形声の方法で作られた漢字。

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

optical character reader; OCR

aligned around

magnetic ink character

Magnetic Character Reader; MCR

final character

fill character

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 number

character display (device); character-imaging device

character-coded-data-element; CC data element

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

ancient seal-script character

mirror writing; mirrored script

Manchu script

hidden character; non-printable character

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

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

mother; wife

squid

hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"

koi carp; flour

fish; mackerel

sushi

you

garlic (Allium sativum)