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(poetic) dazzling variety of bright colors

Synonym of 片仮名

(phonology, orthography, grammar) the 5x10 table used for arranging all the 47 kana used for the 五十音 (literally “fifty sounds”), whose 列 (“columns”) are arranged by the vowels (/a/, /i/, /ɯ/, /e/, /o/) and 行 (“rows”) are arranged by the consonants (Ø, /k/, /s/, /t/, /n/, /h/, /m/, /j/, /ɾ/, /w/; voiced obstruents and /p/ are customarily not included because they were rarely distinguished in writing); columns are ranked by 段 (“grade”), with the vowel /a/ being the highest grade and the vowel /o/ being the lowest; the missing cells of the や行 (“ya-row”) and わ行 (“wa-row”) are filled with い/イ (i), え/エ (e) and う/ウ (u) taken from the あ行 (“a-row”), in order to represent classical grammatical inflection with modern text (or alternatively, artificially filled with rare kana such as 𛀆/𛄠 (yi), 𛀁/𛄡 (ye) and 𛄟/𛄢 (wu))

(grammar) a dependent/enclitic/bound morpheme or form in Japanese, marked by its dependence to a 自立語 (jiritsugo, “free word”) and its lack of distinct pitch accent

(of food) being satisfying; being filling

springiness and resilience to a bite; Q texture

"character ending": unique morpheme ending the speech of a fictional character

the five lakes around Mount Fuji: 本(もと)栖(す)湖(こ) (Motosu-ko), 精(しょう)進(じ)湖(こ) (Shōji-ko), 西(さい)湖(こ) (Sai-ko), 河(かわ)口(ぐち)湖(こ) (Kawaguchi-ko) and 山(やま)中(なか)湖(こ) (Yamanaka-ko).