(linguistics) word form used in literary language

(grammar, linguistics) compound noun

restricted to those under 15 years of age, due to suggestive content

springiness and resilience to a bite; Q texture

the five continents (Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and Americas)

Bogor (a city in West Java, Indonesia)

(historical) researchers who were employed by Tokugawa shogunate and studied Japanese and/or Japan-related history (Japanology).

mobile phone number

(grammar, linguistics) compound verb

(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))