a plane (woodworking)

(woodworking tools) a plane

high quality iron

boring tool

a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana / a syllabogram, an individual character belonging to one of the syllabaries: kana

hardships, difficulties

to experience hardships, difficulties

Short for 漢和連句 (“a kind of renku with 5–7–5 or 7–7 Japanese verses and 5-syllable or 7-syllable Chinese verses, particularly one which begins with a Chinese verse”).

Small combining form of hiragana ゑ (we) used in the 拗音 (yōon) morae く𛅑 (kwe) and ぐ𛅑 (gwe). Historically it was not distinguished from the full-size version; it is primarily used to transcribe foreign loanwords containing the sound.

(obsolete) The hentaigana syllable that is used to represent ho in old Japanese text.