hieroglyph, pictograph

Latin alphabet (the 26-letter alphabet)

an emoticon

(computing) ghost character (kanji included in JIS X 0208 but of unknown origin)

corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding, e.g., •¶Žš‰»‚¯, which is a corruption of 文字化け

(orthography, typography) a minuscule (lower-case letter)

(phonology) a syllable / (loosely, phonology, poetry) Synonym of モーラ (mōra, “a mora”)

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

Kyūjitai form of 平仮名: hiragana

Kyūjitai form of 片仮名: katakana