Japanese word senses marked with topical category "Symbols"
Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Diacritical marks, Logograms, Matched pairs, Numeral symbols, Punctuation marks
Words with this category that have not been disambiguated
Word senses with this category
Total 255 word senses
- v (Punctuation) <3
- w (Punctuation) LOL; an expression of amusement or laughter.
- 一 … 三点リーダー (10 senses)
- 中黒 … 二百 (12 senses)
- 五 … 兆 (9 senses)
- 八 … 十四 (11 senses)
- 千 … 国字 (14 senses)
- 垓 … 幽霊文字 (11 senses)
- 庵点 … 教育漢字 (9 senses)
- 新字 … 波ダッシュ (13 senses)
- 溝 … 疑問符 (9 senses)
- 百 … 終止符 (10 senses)
- 繁体字 … 𥝱 (17 senses)
- この (Numeral) nine
- じゅうよん (Numeral) 十四: fourteen
- はしご高 (Noun) a nickname for the 髙 character, a variant of 高
- はち (Noun) 鉢, 鈸: Buddhist cymbals
- はてなマーク (Noun) a question mark
- よん (Noun) 四: 4, four
- アクサン (Noun) French diacritic
- アスタリスク (Noun) an asterisk (symbol used to highlight words or sentences)
- アットマーク (Noun) Synonym of 単価記号 (tanka kigō, “at sign”)
- アポストロフィー (Noun) an apostrophe
- アンダーバー (Noun) underscore
- アンパサンド (Noun) an ampersand
- ウムラウト (Noun) umlaut
- ゲバ字 (Noun) A style of written kanji, encompassing an angular form and a set of ryakuji. It is politically associated with leftist student activism.
- コロン (Noun) a colon (punctuation mark)
- コンマ (Noun) Western comma
- ゴシック体 (Noun) the gothic typographic style of East Asian scripts (Han, hangul, kana), equivalent to the Western sans serif style
- セミコロン (Noun) a semicolon
- ダッシュ (Noun) a dash (typographic symbol)
- チルダ (Noun) a tilde (diacritical mark)
- トレマ (Noun) trema (diacritic); diaresis
- パーレン (Noun) a parenthesis (either of a pair of brackets ( ))
- ブラケット (Noun) a square bracket
- リーダー (Noun) a leader (principal article in a newspaper)
- リーダー (Noun) a leader (a piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press)
- リーダー (Noun) a leader (a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number)
- リーダー (Noun) a reader
- ・ (Punctuation) used for "spaces" in transcriptions, or as other separators
- ・・・ (Punctuation) Alternative form of …
- (Punctuation)
- ( (Punctuation) Used in ( ).
- ( ) (Punctuation) Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses a regular or traditional pronunciation to kanji (sometimes other types of words, e.g. katakana in parentheses following an English word) that the readers may not necessarily know how to read.
- ( ) (Punctuation) Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses an invented reading or a pronunciation borrowed from another language, which follows usually but not necessarily a kanji word, to conveys the word's deeper or second meaning (see 義(ぎ)訓(くん) (gikun)).
- ( ) (Punctuation) Used to censor vulgar, profane or sensitive words or characters. A formal way to censor words in Japanese is using × or ○ instead. Compare 自主規制 in Japanese and x in Latin alphabet.
- ( ) (Punctuation) Added to the end of a message, with short text inside (the right parenthesis is optional), as a sort of tone indicator.
- ( ) (Punctuation) Added to the end of a message to indicate a lighthearted or joking tone (the right parenthesis is optional),.
- (ry (Punctuation) Used to abbreviate words or sentences when the rest is implicitly known.
- (ぉ (Punctuation) Used at the end of a statement to riposte it oneself.
- (棒) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate flat or deadpan intonation.
- (笑) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the audience is laughing.
- (笑) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is laughing.
- (震え声) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is speaking with a trembling voice.
- ) (Punctuation) Used in ( ).
- - (Character) Visual rendering of Morse code for ム.
- .-.-.- (Punctuation) Visual rendering of Morse code for 、 (ideographic comma).
- .-.-.. (Punctuation) Visual rendering of Morse code for 。 (“ideographic full stop”).
- ~ (Punctuation) Indicating the lengthening of a pronunciation.
- ‥ (Punctuation) An ellipsis comprising two dots.
- …… (Punctuation) ellipsis (…)
- ※ (Punctuation) similar in function to an asterisk or bullet point
- ◌̂ (Character) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called サーカムフレックス (“circumflex”) in Japanese, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê, Î/î, Ô/ô and Û/û.
- ◌̄ (Character) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called マクロン (“macron”) in Japanese, and found on Ā/ā, Ē/ē, Ī/ī, Ō/ō and Ū/ū.
- ♪ (Punctuation) An emoticon indicating a singsong tone of voice or playful attitude.
- ⟨ ⟩ (Punctuation) Encloses titles of books.
- 、 (Punctuation) comma
- 。 (Punctuation) . (full stop or period, marking the end of a sentence)
- 。。。 (Punctuation) Indicates a pause.
- 〇 (Symbol) Used to write zero in kanji positional notation.
- 「 」 (Punctuation) In kanji-katakana mixed writing (before WWII), encloses 外来語 (gairaigo, “foreign loanwords”) written in katakana to mark them apart from ordinary katakana portions of the text.
- 『 』 (Punctuation) Encloses a quotation.
- 【 】 (Punctuation) Encloses a heading or a text for emphasis.
- 〔 〕 (Punctuation) Encloses comments inside quoted text
- 〜 (Punctuation) Indicates the subtitle of a book, manga, video game, etc.
- 〝 〞 (Punctuation) Encloses a quotation.
- 〝 〟 (Punctuation) Encloses a quotation.
- 〳 (Punctuation) the upper half of a vertical mark representing repetition. The lower half is U+3035(〵).
- 〴 (Punctuation) the upper half of a vertical mark representing repetition with dakuten. The lower half is U+3035(〵).
- 〵 (Punctuation) the lower half of a vertical mark representing repetition. The upper half can be either U+3033(〳) or U+3034(〴), depending on whether it is voiced or not (adding a dakuten).
- 〽 (Punctuation) Indicating the start of a part in a song.
- ゛ (Character) The dakuten, which indicates voicing (i.e. ka with a dakuten is pronounced as ga).
- ゛ (Character) The dakuten, which indicates voicing (i.e. ka with a dakuten is pronounced as ga).; It is also sometimes colloquially used to indicate a strained or shouting vocalization.
- ゜ (Character) The handakuten, which indicates that a kana with an initial of h- should be pronounced with p- (i.e. ha with a handakuten is pronounced as pa). It is also sometimes used with k- kana to indicate ng- (a phoneme that is usually an allophone of /g/).
- ゠ (Punctuation) used in transcriptions of Western proper names, as a "space" (similar to a middle dot ・), a "hyphen" or an "en dash"; usually substituted by the more accessible fullwidth equal sign
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