modern language / (especially in reference to Japanese) modern Japanese; Japanese in its current form, spoken since the Meiji era and based on the Tokyo dialect

(fandom slang) in fanwork, placing characters in a modern AU

"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.

sound / timbre / Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music / speech (phonetics) / Short for 字音 (jion): Chinese-derived reading of a kanji / news, tidings

sound / Short for 音読み (on'yomi): the Chinese-derived reading of a kanji / (by extension) reading of a Chinese character outside the Japanese language; rime / Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music

a sound, voice / the cry of an animal

sound / news; tidings; word

(phonetics) voiced consonant

Inner Mongolia (an autonomous region of China)

Outer Mongolia