an orthographic technique utilizing Chinese characters in a way that maps character semantics to Japanese words to write Japanese words

an orthographic technique utilizing Chinese characters in a way that maps the Chinese pronunciation, or such an approximation, to Japanese sounds to write Japanese words

Man'yōgana, the early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana

(regional, western Japan) southern wind, a wind from the south or southwest

a mixed script of kanji and katakana, or a use of such script, that was common in formal writing, before modern orthographic reforms which favored hiragana over katakana for grammatical elements such as particles and inflectional affixes

Alternative form of 真っ二つ

(baseball) sweet spot of a bat

(chiefly Kansai) truth; reality

Chenla

a Eurasian siskin