(phonology, orthography, grammar) all Japanese morae that can be spelled with 45 single modern kana and 2 historical kana (ゐ/ヰ and ゑ/ヱ) customarily without diacritical marks (゛ and ゜), excluding っ and ん, arranged in a 5x10 table (五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally “table of the fifty sounds”)), used for phonological and grammatical analysis

two, 2 / second

(dialect) why

conjunctive form of なす (nasu) [godan]

(obsolete, phonology) any of the morae with an onset consonant listed on the 五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally “chart of the fifty sounds”), such as か (ka) or し (shi), but not あ (a) or い (i), and not が (ga), じ (ji) or ぱ (pa)

(phonetics) in Sanskrit phonology, a consonant made with the throat; a dorsal (/k, g, ŋ/) consonant

single

throat / (printing, of a page) the inside margin, whichever vertical margin that is adjacent to the spine of the book

counter for fish

throat