(orthography) Writing certain kanji of a Sino-Japanese word in kana instead. This may be motivated by reasons such as a kanji being excluded from the list of 常用漢字 (jōyō kanji).

(orthography) to write certain kanji of a Sino-Japanese word in kana instead

hayagaki (strumming technique and pattern for the wagon (和琴))

writing quickly

車体: car body / 斜体: (printing) italic typeface

(chiefly dialectal and colloquial) Alternative form of せる (seru, “causative suffix”)

vinegar (condiment)

The hiragana syllable す (su). Its equivalent in katakana is ス (su). It is the thirteenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is さ行う段 (sa-gyō u-dan, “row sa, section u”).

nest, hive, den

(archaic) to do / (archaic) to cause, become