Meanings
Noun
1. letter (of alphabet); character
2. writing
when read as "もんじ"
Kanji used
written sentence
a character
Pitch accent
Top 1700
Used in vocabulary (263 in total)
literally; to the letter; literal
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)
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
gold or gilt letters
character information; character data; textual data
hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
rounded handwriting
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 umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters; black text
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
tape transcription; transcribing from recorded tape; audio-typing
Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic character
the Japanese syllabary symbols
Greek character; Greek characters
English letter; alphabetic character
text entry; character entry
ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script
fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet
ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters
character encoding (e.g. JIS, Unicode, etc.); character code
phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script
cuneiform (writing)
cuneiform (writing)
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
Tibetan character
character data
Litsea cubeba
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
cuneiform (writing)
Egyptian script (i.e. hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic)
half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.)
personal meeting (esp. used by females)
idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
tab character
algebraic equation; polynomial; character expression; literal expression
symbolic-character
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"
character recognition
character position
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 (apocryphal JIS kanji); phantom character
block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
letter spacing; tracking
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
height of character
linear script (e.g. Linear A, Linear B)
teletext broadcasting
alphanumeric; alphameric
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
machine-dependent character; platform-dependent character
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
ogham; ogham script
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)
width of character
character width
character body
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"
missing character
intermediate character
magnetic ink character
Japanese syllabary symbols; kana
Asahi characters; simplified kanji formerly used by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper
phonetic symbol; phonogram
variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)
backspace character; BS
illegal character
semasio-phonetic character (combining semantic and phonetic components)
featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system
additional character
function character
shunned character
character height
character manipulation
multibyte character
logogram; logograph
character display (device); character-imaging device
writing style used to write the rankings
knotted cords used to record figures, facts, etc.; quipu
hidden character; non-printable character
logogram; logograph
character-coded-data-element; CC data element
replacement character
graphic character
Sinhala alphabet
escape character; ESC
data character
null character
block check character; BCC
markup character
metacharacter
character class
character set
character pitch
character repertoire
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
image overlaid with text
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
Kaida glyphs; pictograms formerly used in the Yaeyama Islands
triangular pattern of objects
character image
punctuation character
picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
Hangul (Korean script)
mirror writing; mirrored script
quipu; khipu; talking knots
double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height
relation character
double width character
character coding system
ancient seal-script character
mother; wife
koi carp; flour
fish; mackerel
garlic (Allium sativum)
embarrassed; ashamed of
hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"
Examples (8 in total)
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