(phonetics) long vowel

(phonetics) a phone

(traditional Chinese phonology) a guttural onset consonant, any of the group of consonants represented by the Middle Chinese pronunciation the following (母 (literally “mother”) means "base sound"; the character before it is the one that bears the onset consonant): 影母 (/ʔ/), 曉母 (/x/), 匣母 (/ɦ/) and 喻母 (/j/)

(Buddhism, chiefly Shingon) An esoteric Buddhist mantra, directed to Monju Bosatsu (Mañjuśrī bodhisattva)

唵訶訶訶尾娑摩曳娑婆訶: (Buddhism) An esoteric Buddhist mantra (Om! Ha ha ha! O wondrous one, svāhā!), directed to Jizō Bosatsu (Kṣitigarbha bodhisattva)

transcription, transcribing: spelling out foreign words in native script; historically, often using kanji for their phonetic values / a word spelled out this way

to transcribe: to spell out foreign words in native script; historically, often using kanji for their phonetic values / to read text aloud, to synthesize speech: to turn text into sound

Short for 音楽大学 (ongaku daigaku, “music college”).

(of characters) representing sound; phonetic

guttural or throaty sound (of speech) / glottal (consonant)