Alternative spelling of 上代特殊仮名遣

"Special kana usage of ancient times": distinctions in the usage of man'yōgana in early Old Japanese works that were quickly lost.

ancient times / (nominal) retail price

(linguistics) kana usage (orthography) / (linguistics) how letters or characters are read or pronounced ("used") / a method of writing (or "using") letters or characters

special / particular / specific

specialness, exceptionality

"Modern kana usage", the method of using kana to write Japanese that has been used after the 1946 (post-war) Japanese national language reform. Unlike its predecessor, it is almost entirely phonetic, reflecting modern language with little ambiguity.

(linguistics) kanji pronunciation based on Middle Chinese borrowings

special forces

(Japanese phonology) a mora that is variously dubbed in English "special mora" (literal translation), "non-syllabic mora" (by Kubozono Haruo), "non-head mora", or "deficient mora" (by Laurence Labrune), and that is unique in that it cannot form a 音節 (onsetsu, “syllable”) on its own, that it never occurs at the beginning of a word, and that is incapable of acting as an アクセント核 (akusento-kaku, “accent kernel”); morae like these include the 促音 (sokuon, “moraic obstruent”), the 撥音 (hatsuon, “moraic nasal”), the second half of a 長音 (chōon, “long vowel”), and the second half of a 二重母音 (nijū boin, “diphthong”)