字

Computing

indentation

Astronomy

Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux)

fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet

arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

Chinese-derived reading of a kanji

ちょくじ used in industry

typesetting

copying; transcription

small administrative unit (of a village)

subscript; superscript

Mathematics

index

swastika (in its clockwise form, esp. as a Nazi symbol)

ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters

designing a font

creating a new character not currently available

E.g. 渕 as variant of 淵

variant character; variant form of a character (esp. kanji)

Computing

external character; user-defined character; character not included in the JIS character set

kanji not included in the jōyō or jinmeiyō lists

foreign letters (esp. of a Western language); foreign writing

crossroads; street crossing

official writing system of a country; official script

kana (as opposed to kanji); Japanese syllabary

kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji

printed book

woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt)

single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath)

new character form; shinjitai; simplified form of kanji used in Japan since 1946

slender character

old character form; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946

lettering on the spine of a book

single letter; single character

kanji compound