同音異義語: a homophone (words with the same pronunciation)

織女星, 織姫星, おりひめ星: Vega

Alternative spelling of 織女星 (“Vega”) (the brightest star in the constellation Lyra)

(Buddhism, chiefly Shingon) An esoteric Buddhist mantra, directed to Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya bodhisattva)

(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))

brioche

(linguistics) Synonym of 同音異義語 (dōon igigo, “homophone”) (words with the same pronunciation)

a chariot: a horse-drawn vehicle with two wheels and usually one or two riders

(biology) neoteny

orgasm