(linguistics) "role language": unique language usage serving as a marker of social identity in fictional speech

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sound / timbre / Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music / speech (phonetics) / Short for 字音 (jion): Chinese-derived reading of a kanji / news, tidings

sound / Short for 音読み (on'yomi): the Chinese-derived reading of a kanji / (by extension) reading of a Chinese character outside the Japanese language; rime / Short for 音楽 (ongaku): music

a sound, voice / the cry of an animal

sound / news; tidings; word

A Japanese go tournament, and the honorary rank conferred to its winner.

(uncommon) Alternative form of 値段 (nedan)

(grammar) Short for 四段活用 (yodan katsuyō): quadrigrade conjugation

(grammar) Clipping of 五段活用 (godan katsuyō): quintigrade conjugation