a pattern, a design, especially one with diagonally crossing lines / a diagonal crossing / a flowery expression or turn of phrase / a plot, a scheme / a refrain or recurring phrase in a piece of music

text; writing; sentence

use one thing for many purposes / work someone hard

to use one's head

(grammar) a case particle (non-free particle following an uninflected word, with grammatical functions akin to noun or pronoun cases in other languages)

adverbial particle

sentence-ending particle

parallel marker, a particle that lists items (abbr. 並詞)

binding particle, linking particle

a text written in Chinese / abbreviation of 中国文学 (chūgoku bungaku, “Chinese literature”)