(nonstandard) romaji; Roman characters; the Latin alphabet, usually written in katakana and kanji: ローマ字 .

廊下: corridor / 老化: aging / 弄火: playing with fire / 狼火: fire beacon / 弄花: playing with flowers; gambling with flower cards

老化: age

老婆: old woman

牢屋: prison / 老爺: old man / 朧夜:

The hiragana syllable び (bi). Its equivalent in katakana is ビ (bi).

美: beautiful / 微: tiny

尾: tail / 弥: extending / 眉: eyebrows / 美: beautiful / 備: preparation / 媚: obsequious / 微: tiny / 鼻: nose / 靡: to flutter, to wave, to be swayed by

尾: fish, shrimp

美: beauty / 微: tininess