refined salt

yellowfin goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus)

a female given name

a male given name

a female given name

Alternative form of 真っ二つ

(regional, western Japan) southern wind, a wind from the south or southwest

(baseball) sweet spot of a bat

a mixed script of kanji and katakana, or a use of such script, that was common in formal writing, before modern orthographic reforms which favored hiragana over katakana for grammatical elements such as particles and inflectional affixes

(history) a syllabary with characters drawn from kanji, such as the 万葉仮名 (Man'yōgana), that is the precursor to hiragana and katakana