Meanings
Noun
1. letter (of alphabet); character
2. writing
when read as "もんじ"
Kanji used
written sentence
a character
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (263 in total)
① 比喩や誇張ではなく。
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)
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
① 事柄を絵によって表現した記号や文字。
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
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。
gold or gilt letters
character information; character data; textual data
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
rounded handwriting
ornamental writing (esp. initial letters); decorative lettering; fancy script
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。
one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
woman's handwriting; hiragana
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
handwritten letter; handwritten character
one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
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
cuneiform (writing)
cuneiform (writing)
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)
Greek character; Greek characters
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
Tibetan character
character data
Litsea cubeba
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
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
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
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。
cuneiform (writing)
Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)
half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
tab character
algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression
symbolic-character
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"
character recognition
character position
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 (apocryphal JIS kanji); phantom character
block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
letter spacing; tracking
① 六書の会意の方法で作られた漢字。
pre-literate society; non-literate society
full-width character; regular character in the JIS, Unicode, etc. standards
height of character
linear script (e.g. Linear A, Linear B)
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。
teletext broadcasting
alphanumeric; alphameric
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
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
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)
width of character
character width
character body
① 漢字を分類した辞書。
word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
missing character
intermediate character
magnetic ink character
Japanese syllabary symbols; kana
Asahi characters; simplified kanji formerly used by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper
phonetic symbol; phonogram
variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)
backspace character; BS
illegal character
① 六書の形声の方法で作られた漢字。
featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system
additional character
function character
shunned character
character height
character manipulation
multibyte character
logogram; logograph
character display (device); character-imaging device
writing style used to write the rankings
knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu
hidden character; non-printable character
logogram; logograph
character-coded-data-element; CC data element
replacement character
graphic character
Sinhala alphabet
escape character; ESC
data character
null character
block check character; BCC
markup character
metacharacter
character class
character set
character pitch
character repertoire
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
image overlaid with text
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
triangular pattern of objects
character image
punctuation character
picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
Hangul (Korean script)
mirror writing; mirrored script
quipu; khipu; talking knots
double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height
relation character
double width character
character coding system
ancient seal-script character
mother; wife
koi carp; flour
fish; mackerel
garlic (Allium sativum)
embarrassed; ashamed of
hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"
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