noun:

• type of lettering consisting of thick vertical and horizontal lines which is often used in seals

noun:

• two characters; name

noun:

• current account surplus

noun:

• symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk)
• turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character - later printed as 〓

noun:

• omitted word; blank type; missing letter

noun:

• copying; transcription

noun:

• International Phonetic Alphabet; IPA - Linguistics term ➜ 国際音声記号

noun:

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

noun:

• finger Braille; system of communicating with the deaf-blind in which the receiver's fingers are tapped like a Braille typewriter ➜ 点字【てんじ】

noun:

• supplementary kanji; 5,801 kanji coded in JIS X 0212 to supplement those in JIS X 0208 - IT term

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星

noun:

• International Red Cross

noun:

• auxiliary - Linguistics term
• auxiliary character (in kanbun)

noun:

• syllabary; phonetic symbol

noun:

• quasi-internal character - IT term

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• Aramaic letter

noun:

• fill character - IT term

noun:

• variant characters (usu. kanji or kana) ➜ 異体字

noun / ~する noun:

• designing a font
• creating a new character not currently available

noun:

• space character

noun:

• superscript - IT term

noun:

• dedicated data character - IT term

noun:

• (in) the shape of the character hachi (eight)

expression:

• patience is the only way - proverb