Vocabulary

Japan Record Award

flag with a red circle on a white background

Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax; extinct)

Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)

Rikkokushi; six national histories of Japan compiled in the Nara and Heian periods

Rikkokushi (six national histories of Japan compiled in the Nara and Heian periods)

Japanese rice

Japanese-style business management; adoption of Japanese business practices (such as lifelong employment, seniority-based promotions, etc.)

open syllable

reading (of a word) that has become accepted through popular usage

Uighur (language); Uigur; Uygur

Javanese (language)

Vietnamese (language)

regular verb

to read kanji using its native Japanese pronunciation

translation from a foreign language into Japanese

vowel harmony

nasal vowel

(alveolar) flap; (alveolar) tap

Ryukyuan languages

Japanese-French (e.g. dictionary)

Japanese-French dictionary

dative case

Japanese (language)

trill

romanization (representation of foreign words using the Roman alphabet); romanized spelling

Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician character

Latin alphabet; Latin character

characters used by Western civilization (esp. the Latin alphabet)

kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana)

kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana)

Japanese text; sentence in Japanese

phonetic table (esp. that of Japanese)

separating words with spaces

medial; final-head (glide before the center vowel in Chinese)

(of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel

long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

(of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel

long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

admission limit; restricted admission