(possibly dialect, Tōhoku) any of various writing systems claimed to predate Japan's adoption of Chinese characters and perpetuated by feudal scholars, but widely discredited by modern scholars

rune

(mahjong) determining what tile would complete an opponent's hand

the Tangut script (a logographic writing system used for writing the Tangut language of the Western Xia Dynasty)

Cyrillization (putting text into the Cyrillic alphabet)

the Old Turkic script

(computing) character whose appearance may depend on a user's environment, or a character which may be absent from a user's environment, i.e. character set incompatibility

(computing) character whose appearance may depend on a user's environment, or a character which may be absent from a user's environment, i.e. character set incompatibility

A kana-based orthography for Okinawan, invented by Yoshiaki FUNAZU, notably including new hiragana ligatures to suit Okinawan phonology.

a logogram