noun:

• first letter; first letters; initial

noun:

• Ninja script

noun:

• special character - IT term

noun:

• beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta) ➜ 百人一首【ひゃくにんいっしゅ】

noun:

• the letter a (in esoteric Buddhism)

noun:

• distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage

noun:

• trade deficit with Japan

noun:

• seal script character

noun:

• beautifully written (Chinese) character - colloquialism ➜ 漢字

noun:

• wooden spoon; ladle; rice scoop

noun:

• semasio-phonetic character (combining semantic and phonetic components)

noun:

• drive letter - IT term

noun:

• Arabic numeral

noun:

• woman's handwriting; hiragana

noun:

• emoticon; smiley; kaomoji

noun:

• compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications); kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)

noun:

• full-width character - IT term

expression / noun:

• gold letters; letters written in gold paint ➜ 金文字

noun:

• similar kanji

noun:

• (inadvertent) insertion of a character in a text

noun:

• tab character - IT term

noun:

• half-width character - IT term

noun:

• koi carp - female language - archaism ➜ 鯉
• flour - female language - archaism ➜ 小麦粉

noun:

• number enclosed within a circle (symbol)

noun:

• Chinese characters which express numbers