literally;  to the letter;  literal
 literally;  to the letter;  literal
 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
 emoji;  pictorial symbol;  pictograph;  ASCII art
 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
 emoticon;  smiley;  kaomoji
 hieroglyph;  hieroglyphic character
 character information;  character data;  textual data
 hieroglyph;  hieroglyphics
 ornamental writing (esp. initial letters);  decorative lettering;  fancy script
 lowercase letter;  small letter
 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 triloba (species of spicebush)
 Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush);  toothpick;  natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony);  black characters;  black text
 tape transcription;  transcribing from recorded tape;  audio-typing
 Cyrillic alphabet;  Cyrillic character
 the Japanese syllabary symbols
 ideogram;  ideograph;  ideographic script
 Greek character;  Greek characters
 text entry;  character entry
 English letter;  alphabetic character
 fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf);  finger alphabet
 ornate initial;  capital letters;  flowers planted to form characters
 phonetic symbol;  phonogram;  phonetic script
 character encoding (e.g. JIS, Unicode, etc.);  character code
 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
 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
 Latin alphabet;  Latin character
 multibyte character;  multibyte encoding;  variable-width encoding
 personal meeting (esp. used by females)
 written language;  literary language
 Russian alphabet;  Russian characters
 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)
 idle words (in a written passage);  useless words;  empty words
 shorthand symbol;  stenograph;  stenographic character;  shorthand script
 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"
 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
 platform-dependent character
 block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
 compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications);  kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)
 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)
 picture formed from letters;  painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
 dictionary of Chinese characters;  kanji dictionary
 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
 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
 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
 knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.;  quipu
 character encoding scheme
 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
 mirror writing;  mirrored script
 quipu;  khipu;  talking knots
 double-size character;  character with a doubled width and/or height
 ancient seal-script character
 hiragana character "i";  hiragana character "hi"