A glottal stop or “choked sound”. / The sokuon: a small form of ツ (tsu). In romanization, this is represented by doubling the following consonant. The equivalent in hiragana is っ.

wild onions or leeks

Visual rendering of Morse code for レ.

The hiragana syllable う (u) or the katakana syllable ウ (u) in Japanese braille.

slander / to revile / huge, big

The hiragana syllable わ (wa) or the katakana syllable ワ (wa) in Japanese braille.

The dakuten, which indicates voicing (i.e. ka with a dakuten is pronounced as ga). / (colloquial) It is also sometimes colloquially used to indicate a strained or shouting vocalization.

Visual rendering of Morse code for ミ.

Encloses a heading, such as a dictionary headword.

similar in function to an asterisk or bullet point