The hiragana syllable る (ru) or the katakana syllable ル (ru) in Japanese braille.

A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called マクロン (“macron”) in Japanese, and found on Ā/ā, Ē/ē, Ī/ī, Ō/ō and Ū/ū.

Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses a regular or traditional pronunciation to kanji (sometimes other types of words, e.g. katakana in parentheses following an English word) that the readers may not necessarily know how to read.

Visual rendering of Morse code for チ.

preceding / prior / previous / anticipatory / beforehand / advance / preliminary / provisional / reservation / plan / expectation / forecast / prediction / budget / foreshadowing

summon / propagate, transmit

facing, opposed / pair, duo, dyad

threaten, coerce

Alternative form of 萌 (“sprout; bud”)

grow thick and full (of plant growth) / multiply, increase