a form of cryptic Japanese writing that substitutes similar-looking characters for the characters intended, used especially in text messages / the characters or symbols used for such substitutions

(archaic, women's speech) you

phonemic script; phonetic writing; alphabet

(calligraphy and typography) "Edo characters", distinctive calligraphic (and later, typographic) styles that were born in the Edo period

(typography) character composition (arrangement and spacing of characters so that they are distributed in a body of text correctly, according to typographic rules)

twice-read character: kanji that must be read twice in the kanbun kundoku (漢文訓読) process

(computing) control character

delimiter; separator character

(programming) character data type

transcription from audio