literally; to the letter; literal
literally; to the letter; literal
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; 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
emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph; ASCII art
ancient script; ancient character; ancient alphabet
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.
corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text
emoticon; smiley; kaomoji
hieroglyph; hieroglyphic character
gold lettering; gilt letters
character information; character data; textual data
ornamental writing (esp. initial letters); decorative lettering; fancy script
lowercase letter; small letter
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion; (arch.) spring onion
woman's handwriting; hiragana
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
Yi script (used to write the Yi languages)
one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion; (arch.) spring onion
handwritten letter; handwritten character
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script
the Japanese syllabary symbols
Greek letter; Greek alphabet
transcription (of speech to text)
Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letter
text entry; character entry
English letter; alphabetic character
appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning
phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script
fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet
ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters
character encoding; character code
boldface; bold-type; thick characters
Arabic script; Arabic letter
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message
the Japanese syllabary symbols
Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew letter
Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician character
writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips)
Greek letter; Greek alphabet
gold letters; letters written in gold paint
lettering on the spine of a book
the Japanese syllabary symbols
jindai moji; forged syllabic characters purported to have been used in ancient Japan
space character; whitespace character; blank character
block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
Chinese characters; hanzi; kanji
Latin alphabet; Latin character
beautifully written (Chinese) character
writing system using unconventional characters and symbols, esp. used by young women in texting
written language; literary language
entry kanji in a kanji dictionary; capital letter; matrix (printing); kanji corresponding to furigana
silver-gilt letters; silvery letters
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt); single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath)
man's handwriting; kanji; Chinese characters
multibyte character; multibyte encoding; variable-width encoding
Russian alphabet; Russian characters
character layout; typesetting
character layout; typesetting
Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)
half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)
algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning
shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
text decoration (e.g. character and font effects, underline, etc.)
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
boldface; bold-type; thick characters
ancient seal-script character
word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
enclosed character; circled alphanumeric
Aramaic alphabet; 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; kanji of unknown origin included in the JIS X 0208 character set
platform-dependent character
block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
pre-literate society; non-literate society
full-width character; regular character in the JIS, Unicode, etc. standards
linear script (e.g. Linear A, Linear B)
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
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)
dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary
Chinese characters; hanzi; kanji
word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
field-separator character
Japanese syllabary symbols; kana
koseki unified characters; set of characters approved for use in family names
Magnetic Character Reader; MCR
Asahi characters; simplified kanji formerly used by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper
phonetic symbol; phonogram
variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)
the word impossible is not in my dictionary
semasio-phonetic character (combining semantic and phonetic components)
optical character reader; OCR
optical character reader; OCR
the word impossible is not in my dictionary
featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system
character display (device); character-imaging device
writing style used to write the rankings
character encoding scheme
knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu
hidden character; non-printable character
record boundary character
character-coded-data-element; CC data element
block check character; BCC
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
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
triangular pattern of objects
theory of written language
mirror writing; mirrored script
quipu; khipu; talking knots
double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height
hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"