(Chinese astronomy) the Heart constellation, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions / a male or female given name / a surname

expresses heartfelt feeling

a heart, mind, core / a spirit, vitality / inner strength, marrow / 心, 芯: the core (for example, of a fruit) / 心, 芯: a wick / (Buddhism) citta: the ego or spirit / (Buddhism) Short for 心王 (shinnō):

Short for 心臓 (shinzō): heart as an organ in the body / Short for 心頭 (shintō): heart, mind, spirit / Short for 中心 (chūshin): center, middle

heart; mind; spirit

(phonology, orthography, grammar) the 5x10 table used for arranging all the 47 kana used for the 五十音 (literally “fifty sounds”), whose 列 (“columns”) are arranged by the vowels (/a/, /i/, /ɯ/, /e/, /o/) and 行 (“rows”) are arranged by the consonants (Ø, /k/, /s/, /t/, /n/, /h/, /m/, /j/, /ɾ/, /w/; voiced obstruents and /p/ are customarily not included because they were rarely distinguished in writing); columns are ranked by 段 (“grade”), with the vowel /a/ being the highest grade and the vowel /o/ being the lowest; the missing cells of the や行 (“ya-row”) and わ行 (“wa-row”) are filled with い/イ (i), え/エ (e) and う/ウ (u) taken from the あ行 (“a-row”), in order to represent classical grammatical inflection with modern text (or alternatively, artificially filled with rare kana such as 𛀆/𛄠 (yi), 𛀁/𛄡 (ye) and 𛄟/𛄢 (wu))

(linguistics) Synonym of 同音異義語 (dōon igigo, “homophone”) (words with the same pronunciation)

(music) music box

(humble) my house

(humble) our business / operation (used by businesses and groups operating a 館 – 旅館 (“inn”), 大使館 (“embassy”) etc.)