モジ
Meanings
Noun
1. letter (of alphabet); character
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (253 in total)
Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language; Western language
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message
Litsea cubeba
literally; to the letter; literal
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)
large character; large writing
four characters; four letters
emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph; ASCII art
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
one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
gold or gilt letters
character information; character data; textual data
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
rounded handwriting
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
ornamental writing (esp. initial letters); decorative lettering; fancy script
mirror writing
lowercase letter; small letter
woman's handwriting; hiragana
character written by brush; brush-stroke character
Greek character; Greek characters
Greek character; Greek characters
handwritten letter; handwritten character
the Japanese syllabary symbols
tape transcription; transcribing from recorded tape; audio-typing
Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic character
dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary
woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt); single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath)
English letter; alphabetic character
ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script
text entry; character entry
ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters
fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet
cuneiform (writing)
cuneiform (writing)
cuneiform (writing)
character encoding (e.g. JIS, Unicode, etc.); character code
phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script
Arabic script
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician character
writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips)
lettering on the spine of a book
Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew letter
ancient Japanese characters (regarded today as created at a much more recent date)
space character
gold letters; letters written in gold paint
block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
Tangut script
hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
writing system using unconventional characters and symbols, esp. used by young women in texting
Tibetan character
newline character
character data
beautifully written (Chinese) character
entry kanji in a kanji dictionary; capital letter; matrix (printing); kanji corresponding to furigana
silver-gilt letters; silvery letters
man's handwriting; kanji; Chinese characters
Latin alphabet; Latin character
multibyte character; multibyte encoding; variable-width encoding
written language; literary language
Russian alphabet; Russian characters
oracle bone script
control character
nonnumeric literal
half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)
multicharacter
Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
Japanese character
text decoration (e.g. character and font effects, underline, etc.)
tab character
symbolic-character
delimiter
special character
Khitan script
Jurchen script
algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression
word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
Aramaic letter
character position
character recognition
ghost character (apocryphal JIS kanji); phantom character
red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink)
platform-dependent character
compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications); kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)
syllabic character
Ninja script
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
teletext broadcasting
full-width character; regular character in the JIS, Unicode, etc. standards
letter spacing; tracking
alphanumeric; alphameric
open face
height of character
width of character
character spacing
character reference
character width
missing character
character body
name character
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
pre-literate society; non-literate society
ogham; ogham script
single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts
linear script (e.g. Linear A, Linear B)
reading classical Chinese aloud without trying to understand the meaning; reading a kanji compound using the Japanese pronunciation of each of its characters
shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
demotic (ancient Egyptian script)
Siddham script
phonetic symbols
backspace character; BS
optical character
combination lock
character encoding scheme
character coding system
semasio-phonetic character (combining semantic and phonetic components)
writing style used to write the rankings
Hangul (Korean script)
Sinhala alphabet
accented character
escape character; ESC
graphics character
code extension character
dedicated data character
data character
drive letter
null character
field-separator character
fill character
block check character; BCC
markup character
metacharacter
wildcard character
shunned character
space character
function character
record boundary character
punctuation character
delimiter characters
check character
superscript
optical character reader; OCR
magnetic ink character
Magnetic Character Reader; MCR
final character
fill character
superscript
graphic character
device control character
multibyte character
replacement character
intermediate character
double width character
relation character
nonprinting character
illegal character
additional character
sign character
carriage return
multi-byte character
separator character
character class
character set
character text
character data entity
character pitch
character repertoire
character rotation
character orientation
character base line
character base vector
character storage unit
character boundary
nonnumeric item
character height
character class
character decoration
character set
character sequence
character manipulation
character image
character generator
character number
character display (device); character-imaging device
character-coded-data-element; CC data element
editing character
padding character
name start character
the word impossible is not in my dictionary
knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu
leading character
Etruscan character; Etruscan alphabet
Dongba script (used by the Naxi People in southern China); Tomba script; Tompa script
variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)
logogram; logograph
logogram; logograph
Japanese syllabary symbols; kana
Cretan script (Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B)
quipu; khipu; talking knots
control character
Sinai inscriptions; proto-Sinaitic script
triangular pattern of objects
phonetic symbol; phonogram
ancient seal-script character
mirror writing; mirrored script
Manchu script
hidden character; non-printable character
picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height
Asahi characters; simplified kanji formerly used by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper
featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system
image overlaid with text
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
mother; wife
squid
hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"
koi carp; flour
fish; mackerel
sushi
garlic (Allium sativum)
Examples (8 in total)
How many letters are there in the alphabet?
Can he write this character?
How do you read this character?