| 文字 | もじ | letter (of an alphabet); character; writing | n3 |
| 漢字 | かんじ | kanji; Chinese character | n5 |
| 字 | あざ | section of village | n4 |
| 四字熟語 | よじじゅくご | four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic) | |
| 数字 | すうじ | numeral; digit; numeric character; figure | n3 |
| 字通 | じつう | Jitsū (kanji dictionary published by Heibonsha) | |
| 漢 | おとこ | man among men; man's man | n5 |
| 半角英数字 | はんかくえいすうじ | half-width alphanumeric character | |
| 文字通り | もじどおり | literally; to the letter; literal | |
| 字形 | じけい | character style; character form | |
| 活字 | かつじ | (piece of) type; movable type; moveable type; printing type | n2 |
| 二字 | にじ | two characters; name | n2 |
| 漢方 | かんぽう | kampō; traditional (herbal) medicine based on ancient Chinese medicine | |
| 漢文 | かんぶん | Chinese classical writing; Chinese classics; writing composed entirely of kanji | |
| 十字 | じゅうじ | cross; cross shape; sign of the cross | n2 |
| 十字架 | じゅうじか | cross (for crucifixion); the Cross (of Christ) | |
| 漢語 | かんご | Japanese word of Chinese origin; Sino-Japanese word; language of the Han people; Chinese | n4 |
| 苗字 | みょうじ | surname; family name; last name | n3 |
| 習字 | しゅうじ | penmanship; calligraphy | n2 |
| 一文字 | いちもんじ | straight line; beeline | |
| ローマ字 | ローマじ | Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet; romaji; romanized Japanese | |
| 常用漢字 | じょうようかんじ | jōyō kanji; kanji for common use; list of 2,136 kanji designated for common use (introduced in 1981, revised in 2010) | |
| 漢書 | かんしょ | Chinese book; book written in Chinese | |
| 漢方薬 | かんぽうやく | Chinese herbal medicine | |
| 大字 | おおあざ | larger section (of village) | |
| 名字 | みょうじ | surname; family name; last name | n3 |
| 和漢 | わかん | Japanese-Chinese; Japan and China | |
| 漢詩 | かんし | Chinese poem; Chinese poetry | n1 |
| 漢検 | かんけん | The Japan Kanji Aptitude Test | |
| 漢学 | かんがく | Sinology; study of China or of the Chinese classics | |
| 悪漢 | あっかん | rascal; villain; scoundrel; ruffian | n1 |
| 絵文字 | えもじ | emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph; pictogram | |
| 文字数 | もじすう | number of characters; character count | |
| 文字集合 | もじしゅうごう | character set | |
| 無頼漢 | ぶらいかん | ruffian; villain; scoundrel | |
| 文字どおり | もじどおり | literally; to the letter; literal | |
| 顔文字 | かおもじ | emoticon; smiley; kaomoji | |
| 大の字 | だいのじ | shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled | |
| 新字 | しんじ | newly created character; newly introduced (kanji) character (in a textbook); new character form; shinjitai | |
| 赤字 | あかじ | (being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing | n1 |
| 頭文字 | かしらもじ | first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence); initials (of one's name) | |
| 字体 | じたい | form of a character (e.g. simplified, traditional); type; typeface; font | n1 |
| 字幕 | じまく | subtitles; captioning | n1 |
| 十文字 | じゅうもんじ | cross; cruciform | |
| 当て字 | あてじ | kanji used as a phonetic symbol, instead of for the meaning; phonetic-equivalent character; substitute character; ateji | |
| 漢字表記 | かんじひょうき | kanji representation; representation in Chinese characters; way of writing (a word) in kanji | |
| 文字コード | もじコード | character encoding; character code | |
| 酔漢 | すいかん | drunkard; drunken fellow | |
| 前漢 | ぜんかん | Former Han dynasty (of China; 206 BCE-9 CE); Western Han dynasty | |
| 漢字辞典 | かんじじてん | kanji dictionary; Chinese character dictionary | |
| 赤十字 | せきじゅうじ | Red Cross | |
| 丁字 | ちょうじ | clove (Syzygium aromaticum) | |
| 横文字 | よこもじ | horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters; European language | |
| 女文字 | おんなもじ | woman's handwriting; hiragana | |
| 字引 | じびき | dictionary | |
| 誤字 | ごじ | misprint; misspelling; typo; typographical error | |
| 門外漢 | もんがいかん | outsider; layman; amateur | |
| 羅漢 | らかん | arhat | |
| 検字 | けんじ | stroke-count index | |
| 文字列 | もじれつ | character string | |
| 字句 | じく | wording; words and phrases; way of expression; token | n1 |
| 字面 | じづら | appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning | |
| 字音 | じおん | Chinese-derived reading of a kanji | |
| 真一文字 | まいちもんじ | straight line; beeline | |
| 字義 | じぎ | meaning of a word; meaning of the kanji (that make up a word) | |
| 漢籍 | かんせき | Chinese book; Chinese classics | |
| 字典 | じてん | dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary | n2 |
| 大文字 | おおもじ | uppercase letter; capital letter; large character; large writing | |
| 後漢 | ごかん | Later Han dynasty (of China; 25-220 CE); Eastern Han dynasty; Later Han dynasty (of China; 947-950 CE) | n1 |
| 一字 | いちじ | (one) letter; (one) character | n3 |
| 旧字体 | きゅうじたい | old character form; kyūjitai; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946 | |
| 舊字體 | きゅうじたい | old character form; kyūjitai; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946 | |
| 英数字 | えいすうじ | alphanumeric character; letters (of the English alphabet) and numbers | |
| 漢音 | かんおん | kan-on; Han reading; on reading of a kanji based on Tang dynasty Chinese | |
| 細字 | さいじ | small type or handwriting | |
| 異体字 | いたいじ | variant character; variant form of a character (esp. kanji) | |
| 痴漢 | ちかん | molester; groper; masher; pervert | |
| 十字路 | じゅうじろ | crossroads; intersection | |
| 点字 | てんじ | braille | n2 |
| 黒字 | くろじ | (being in) the black; surplus; black letter | n1 |
| 八文字 | はちもんじ | (in) the shape of the character hachi (eight) | |
| 英字 | えいじ | English letter; alphabetic character | |
| 九字 | くじ | nine-character charm chanted with ritual gestures to ward off evil (esp. by mountain ascetics and adherents of Esoteric Buddhism) | n2 |
| 文字化け | もじばけ | corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text | |
| 常用漢字表 | じょうようかんじひょう | list of jōyō kanji; list of kanji for common use | |
| 和漢洋 | わかんよう | Japan, China and the West; Japanese, Chinese and Western learning | |
| 漢和辞典 | かんわじてん | dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary | |
| 十字軍 | じゅうじぐん | Crusades; Crusaders | |
| 字書 | じしょ | dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary; dictionary | n5 |
| 字源 | じげん | origin of a character; composition of a Chinese character; Chinese character from which a kana character is derived | n1 |
| 太字 | ふとじ | boldface; bold-type; thick characters | |
| 漢字検定 | かんじけんてい | kanji aptitude test (esp. the Kanji Kentei); The Japan Kanji Aptitude Test | |
| 頭字 | かしらじ | first letter; first letters; initial | |
| 小字 | こあざ | small administrative unit (of a village) | |
| 漢土 | かんど | China | |
| 熟字 | じゅくじ | kanji compound | |
| 金字塔 | きんじとう | pyramid; monumental work; landmark achievement | |
| 文字入力 | もじにゅうりょく | text entry; character entry | |
| 字音仮名遣 | じおんかなづかい | jion kanazukai (historical kana style for kanji on-yomi) | |
| 字数 | じすう | number of characters; number of letters | |
| 巨漢 | きょかん | giant | |
| 漢訳 | かんやく | translation into (classical) Chinese; translation into kanbun; kango translation; translation into Japanese using kanji | |
| 好漢 | こうかん | fine fellow | n3 |
| 字母 | じぼ | letter (of an alphabet); syllabic character; matrix; printing type | |
| 字彙 | じい | dictionary of Chinese characters | |
| 旧字 | きゅうじ | old character form; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946 | |
| 梵字 | ぼんじ | script used to write Sanskrit (esp. Siddham) | |
| 舊字 | きゅうじ | old character form; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946 | |
| 略字 | りゃくじ | abbreviated form of a Chinese character; simplified character; acronym; abbreviation | |
| 繁体字 | はんたいじ | traditional Chinese character; unsimplified Chinese character | |
| 三十一文字 | みそひともじ | tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem | |
| 暴漢 | ぼうかん | hoodlum; ruffian | |
| 金字 | きんじ | gold or gilt letters | |
| 兇漢 | きょうかん | villain; outlaw; assassin | n2 |
| 漢人 | かんじん | Chinese person (esp. Han Chinese) | n2 |
| 小文字 | こもじ | lowercase letter; small letter | |
| 日本赤十字社 | にほんせきじゅうじしゃ | Japanese Red Cross Society; JRC | |
| 解字 | かいじ | explanation of a kanji | |
| 用字 | ようじ | using characters | n4 |
| 伏字 | ふせじ | symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk); turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character | |
| 添字 | そえじ | subscript; superscript; index | |
| 怪漢 | かいかん | suspicious man | n1 |
| ペン字 | ペンじ | pen writing; character written with a pen | |
| 十字形 | じゅうじけい | cross-shaped; cruciform | |
| 題字 | だいじ | title lettering | n4 |
| 国字 | こくじ | official writing system of a country; official script; kana (as opposed to kanji); Japanese syllabary | |
| 字訓 | じくん | the Japanese reading of a kanji | |
| 文字絵 | もじえ | picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period) | |
| 漢字音 | かんじおん | Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations) | |
| 熟字訓 | じゅくじくん | reading assigned to a kanji compound whose constituent characters are related to the word's meaning but not its pronunciation; kanji compound reading that has no correspondence to the readings of the constituent characters | |
| 武漢 | ぶかん | Wuhan (China) | |
| 漢数字 | かんすうじ | Chinese numerals; kanji numerals | |
| 漢和 | かんわ | China and Japan; Chinese and Japanese (languages); dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary | n1 |
| 字画 | じかく | strokes in a Chinese character; stroke count of a Chinese character | n2 |
| 阿羅漢 | あらかん | arhat | |
| 当用漢字 | とうようかんじ | tōyō kanji; list of 1,850 kanji approved for general use in 1946, superseded by the jōyō kanji in 1981 | |
| 印字 | いんじ | printing (text or symbols); typing; printed character; typed character | |
| 漢代 | かんだい | Han period (China; 202 BCE-220 CE); Han era | n1 |
| 万字 | まんじ | swastika (esp. counterclockwise form as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion; swastika-shaped family crest | |
| 文字起こし | もじおこし | transcription (of speech to text) | |
| 植字 | しょくじ | typesetting | n5 |
| 漢名 | かんめい | Chinese name (often of plants and animals) | n1 |
| 宝字 | ほうじ | kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin) | |
| 新字体 | しんじたい | new character form; shinjitai; simplified form of kanji used in Japan since 1946 | |
| 新字體 | しんじたい | new character form; shinjitai; simplified form of kanji used in Japan since 1946 | |
| 誤字脱字 | ごじだつじ | mistaken or missing characters; omissions or errors | |
| ローマ字入力 | ローマじにゅうりょく | Romaji input | |
| 仮字 | かな | kana; Japanese syllabaries (i.e. hiragana and katakana) | n4 |
| 日本漢字能力検定協会 | にほんかんじのうりょくけんていきょうかい | Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation; JKATF | |
| 脱字 | だつじ | omitted character; omitted letter | |
| 一丁字 | いっていじ | single letter; single character | |
| 写字 | しゃじ | copying; transcription | |
| 仮名文字 | かなもじ | the Japanese syllabary symbols | |
| 特殊文字 | とくしゅもじ | special character | |
| 外字 | がいじ | external character; user-defined character; character not included in the JIS character set; kanji not included in the jōyō or jinmeiyō lists | |
| 本字 | ほんじ | kanji (as opposed to kana); original form of a Chinese character (as opposed to a simplified or abbreviated form); Chinese character from which another Chinese character derives | |
| 黒文字 | くろもじ | Lindera umbellata (species of spicebush); toothpick; natural wooden chopsticks (tea ceremony); black characters | |
| 正字 | せいじ | correctly written character; kanji used with its original meaning; traditional kanji; unsimplified kanji | n3 |
| 和字 | わじ | native Japanese characters (i.e. hiragana and katakana); kana; kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji | |
| 十字街 | じゅうじがい | crossroads; street crossing | |
| ラテン文字 | ラテンもじ | Latin alphabet; Latin character | |
| 古字 | こじ | ancient character (esp. Chinese); ancient writing | n1 |
| 当字 | あてじ | kanji used as a phonetic symbol, instead of for the meaning; phonetic-equivalent character; substitute character; ateji | |
| 頓珍漢 | とんちんかん | absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance | |
| 不立文字 | ふりゅうもんじ | Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) | |
| 切れ字 | きれじ | punctuation words in haiku, renga, etc. such as "ya", "kana", "keri", etc. | |
| 閑文字 | かんもじ | idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words | |
| 字余り | じあまり | hypermeter; excess syllables in haiku, waka, etc. | |
| 制御文字 | せいぎょもじ | control character | |
| 宛字 | あてじ | kanji used as a phonetic symbol, instead of for the meaning; phonetic-equivalent character; substitute character; ateji | |
| 漢族 | かんぞく | Han race; Han people | |
| 湯文字 | ゆもじ | woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt); single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath) | |
| 象形文字 | しょうけいもじ | hieroglyph; hieroglyphic character | |
| 翻字 | ほんじ | transliteration | |
| 花文字 | はなもじ | ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters | |
| 神代文字 | じんだいもじ | jindai moji; forged syllabic characters purported to have been used in ancient Japan | |
| アラビア文字 | アラビアもじ | Arabic script; Arabic letter | |
| あて字 | あてじ | kanji used as a phonetic symbol, instead of for the meaning; phonetic-equivalent character; substitute character; ateji | |
| 漢文訓読 | かんぶんくんどく | reading a classical Chinese text in Japanese | |
| 英数字集合 | えいすうじしゅうごう | alphanumeric character set | |
| 文字の大きさ | もじのおおきさ | graphic size | |
| 識字率 | しきじりつ | literacy rate | |
| 親字 | おやじ | entry kanji in a kanji dictionary | n1 |
| 漢民族 | かんみんぞく | Chinese people; Han race | |
| 形声文字 | けいせいもじ | semasio-phonetic character (combining semantic and phonetic components) | |
| 教育漢字 | きょういくかんじ | the 1,026 kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools | |
| 楔形文字 | くさびがたもじ | cuneiform (writing) | |
| 漢服 | かんふく | traditional Chinese clothing | |
| 喜の字 | きのじ | 77th birthday | |
| 御の字 | おんのじ | (being) most satisfactory; (being) quite satisfied; (being) quite enough | |
| 文字盤 | もじばん | dial (of a meter, watch, etc.); face (of a clock); keyboard (on a typewriter, etc.); letter board (communication aid for people unable to speak) | |
| 熱血漢 | ねっけつかん | hot-blooded man | |
| 和製漢語 | わせいかんご | Japanese word constructed from Sino-Japanese elements; wasei kango | |
| 文字番号 | もじばんごう | character number | |
| 甲骨文字 | こうこつもじ | oracle bone script | |
| 篆字 | てんじ | seal script character | n2 |
| 綴字 | ていじ | spelling | n2 |
| 俗字 | ぞくじ | informal variant of a Chinese character; popular form of a Chinese character | |
| 闕字 | けつじ | omission of a character; omitted character; blank type; insertion of blank spaces before and after the names of dignitaries (as a sign of respect) | |
| 冷血漢 | れいけつかん | cold-blooded person; heartless; coldhearted person | |
| 十字に | じゅうじに | crosswise | |
| 心字池 | しんじいけ | lake shaped like the kanji "heart" character (traditional Japanese gardens) | |
| 漢方医 | かんぽうい | doctor of Chinese (herbal) medicine | |
| 音節文字 | おんせつもじ | syllabic character | |
| 字牌 | ツーパイ | honor tiles | |
| 鏡文字 | かがみもじ | mirror writing | |
| 和魂漢才 | わこんかんさい | the Japanese spirit imbued with Chinese learning | |
| 文字参照 | もじさんしょう | character reference | |
| 文字情報 | もじじょうほう | character information; character data; textual data | |
| 表外漢字 | ひょうがいかんじ | non-jōyō kanji; kanji not included in the common-use kanji list | |
| 助字 | じょじ | auxiliary character (in kanbun) | |
| 識字 | しきじ | literacy | |
| 字方向 | じほうこう | character writing direction | |
| 字配り | じくばり | word or letter layout | |
| 男文字 | おとこもじ | man's handwriting; kanji; Chinese characters | |
| 踊り字 | おどりじ | iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark | |
| 表音文字 | ひょうおんもじ | phonetic symbol; phonogram; phonetic script | |
| キリル文字 | キリルもじ | Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letter | |
| 漢字文化圏 | かんじぶんかけん | Chinese-character cultural sphere; Sinosphere; countries where Chinese characters are used or were historically used | |
| 凶漢 | きょうかん | villain; outlaw; assassin | n2 |
| 天漢 | てんかん | Milky Way | n2 |
| 字解 | じかい | kanji meaning interpretation | n2 |
| 異字 | いじ | different character; other character; variant character; different written form of a character | n2 |
| 合字 | ごうじ | ligature | |
| 邦字 | ほうじ | Japanese characters; kanji and kana | |
| 代用字 | だいようじ | substitute kanji; jōyō kanji used in place of a non-jōyō kanji | |
| 十字火 | じゅうじか | crossfire | |
| 美文字 | びもじ | beautifully written (Chinese) character | |
| 統合漢字 | とうごうかんじ | unified Chinese character | |
| 六字の名号 | ろくじのみょうごう | the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer) | |
| 欠字 | けつじ | omission of a character; omitted character; blank type; insertion of blank spaces before and after the names of dignitaries (as a sign of respect) | |
| 音字 | おんじ | syllabary; phonetic symbol | |
| 和漢薬 | わかんやく | Japanese and Chinese medicine; Oriental medicine | |
| 杓文字 | しゃもじ | wooden spoon; ladle; rice scoop | |
| 漢学者 | かんがくしゃ | Sinologist; scholar of the Chinese classics | |
| 国字問題 | こくじもんだい | issues pertaining to a nation's script (e.g. standardization of kanji in Japanese) | |
| 漢字変換 | かんじへんかん | kanji conversion | |
| 英字新聞 | えいじしんぶん | English-language newspaper | |
| 東漢 | とうかん | Eastern Han dynasty (of China; 25-220 CE); Later Han dynasty | n2 |
| 嘘字 | うそじ | incorrectly written character; kanji written with the wrong strokes; wrongly used kanji | |
| 伏せ字 | ふせじ | symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk); turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character | |
| 漢字圏 | かんじけん | countries where Chinese characters are used or were historically used | |
| 十文字に | じゅうもんじに | crosswise | |
| 南十字星 | みなみじゅうじせい | Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) | |
| 異字同訓 | いじどうくん | (words with) different kanji but the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) | |
| 表意文字 | ひょういもじ | ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script | |
| 銀漢 | ぎんかん | Milky Way | |
| 難字 | なんじ | difficult character; complicated kanji | |
| 字一色 | ツーイーソー | all honors; winning hand consisting only of honor tiles | |
| 筆文字 | ふでもじ | character written by brush; brush-stroke character | |
| 黒字化 | くろじか | moving into the black; becoming profitable | |
| 一字千金 | いちじせんきん | word of great value | |
| 学習漢字 | がくしゅうかんじ | the 1,026 kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools | |
| 生き字引 | いきじびき | walking encyclopedia; walking dictionary | |
| 苗字帯刀 | みょうじたいとう | right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) | |
| 和漢混淆文 | わかんこんこうぶん | mixed writing of literary Japanese and Chinese | |
| 日本語字幕 | にほんごじまく | Japanese subtitles | |
| 漢奸 | かんかん | Chinese traitor (esp. a collaborator with the Japanese) | |
| 虚字 | きょじ | kanji representing verb or adjective | |
| 多音字 | たおんじ | polyphone | |
| 大食漢 | たいしょくかん | great eater; glutton | |
| 真字本 | まなぼん | book written entirely in kanji | |
| 線文字 | せんもじ | linear script (e.g. Linear A, Linear B) | |
| 十字砲火 | じゅうじほうか | cross fire | |
| 同訓異字 | どうくんいじ | (words with) different kanji but the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) | |
| 字幕付き | じまくつき | subtitled (of a movie, etc.) | |
| 文字言語 | もじげんご | written language; literary language | |
| 算用数字 | さんようすうじ | Arabic numeral | |
| 字種 | じしゅ | character class (e.g. distinct kanji character and its alternative written forms) | n2 |
| 字名 | あざな | Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations); nickname; section of a village | |
| 西漢 | せいかん | Western Han dynasty (of China; 206 BCE-9 CE); Former Han dynasty | |
| 四文字 | よんもじ | four characters; four letters | |
| 漢字源 | かんじげん | Kanjigen (character dictionary published by Gakken) | |
| 白文字 | しろもじ | Lindera triloba (species of spicebush) | |
| かな文字 | かなもじ | the Japanese syllabary symbols | |
| 永字八法 | えいじはっぽう | Eight Principles of Yong; principles for writing the eight basic brush strokes in Chinese characters | |
| 漢字制限 | かんじせいげん | restrictions on the number of kanji recognized for usage (recognised) | |
| 補助漢字 | ほじょかんじ | supplementary kanji; 5,801 kanji coded in JIS X 0212 to supplement those in JIS X 0208 | |
| 雁字搦め | がんじがらめ | binding (someone) hand and foot; being tied down (by rules, obligations, etc.) | |
| 手書き文字 | てがきもじ | handwritten letter; handwritten character | |
| ブラーフミー文字 | ブラーフミーもじ | Brahmi script | |
| 阿字 | あじ | first Sanskrit alphabet letter (in esoteric Buddhism symbolizes the source of all things) | n4 |
| 刻字 | こくじ | carving characters; carved characters | |
| 字号 | じごう | type size; point | |
| 青字 | あおじ | blue letter; blue text | |
| 韻字 | いんじ | rhyming words | |
| 大赤字 | おおあかじ | being greatly in the red; taking a big loss; heavy deficit | |
| 字幕版 | じまくばん | subtitled version (of a movie) | |
| 文字間 | もじかん | letter spacing; tracking | |
| 漢点字 | かんてんじ | braille kanji | |
| 英文字 | えいもじ | English letter; alphabetic character | |
| 表外字 | ひょうがいじ | non-jōyō kanji; kanji not included in the common-use kanji list | |
| 半角数字 | はんかくすうじ | half-width digit | |
| 好字 | こうじ | auspicious characters (used in people or place names) | n4 |
| 同字 | どうじ | the same character | n3 |
| 角字 | かくじ | style of lettering consisting of thick vertical and horizontal lines, often used in seals, crests, etc.; printed style (of writing Chinese characters; as opposed to cursive style); kanji (as opposed to kana) | n2 |
| 欧字 | おうじ | European letters; Latin script | |
| 漢意 | からごころ | admiration of Chinese culture (as opposed to Japanese culture); the Chinese spirit; Chinese soul | |
| 漢気 | おとこぎ | chivalrous spirit; chivalry | |
| 衍字 | えんじ | superfluous character; character added by mistake | |
| 旧漢字 | きゅうかんじ | old-style kanji | |
| 書換字 | かきかえじ | substitute kanji; kanji used in place of another with the same meaning | |
| 活字体 | かつじたい | printed form (of writing); print; typeface | |
| 非識字 | ひしきじ | illiteracy | |
| 字義通り | じぎどおり | literal (meaning; of a word, etc.) | |
| 活字離れ | かつじばなれ | aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature | |
| 素性文字 | そせいもじ | featural script (e.g. hangul); featural writing system | |
| 記号文字 | きごうもじ | symbolic-character | |
| 貿易赤字 | ぼうえきあかじ | trade deficit | |
| 赤字経営 | あかじけいえい | deficit operation; operating at a loss; being in the red | |
| 黒字倒産 | くろじとうさん | business insolvency due to liquidity problems | |
| 黒字転換 | くろじてんかん | returning to profit; turnaround | |
| 字義どおり | じぎどおり | literal (meaning; of a word, etc.) | |
| 河漢 | かかん | Milky Way | n1 |
| 蜀漢 | しょっかん | Shu Han (kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era; 221-263); Shu | n1 |
| 作字 | つくりじ | made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; arranging a group of things or people to form a character; kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China) | |
| 卍字 | まんじ | swastika (esp. counterclockwise form as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion; swastika-shaped family crest | |
| 原字 | げんじ | original kanji form; base kanji form | |
| 漢薬 | かんやく | Chinese medicine; herbal medicine | |
| 筆字 | ふでじ | character written by brush; brush-stroke character | |
| 印字機 | いんじき | typewriter; teletype | |
| 古文字 | こもじ | kanji (as opposed to kana) | |
| 彝文字 | いもじ | Yi script (used to write the Yi languages) | |
| 数字譜 | すうじふ | numerical musical notation | |
| 漢文学 | かんぶんがく | Chinese classical literature; Chinese classics | |
| 生字引 | いきじびき | walking encyclopedia; walking dictionary | |
| 組文字 | くみもじ | block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character | |
| 羅漢果 | らかんか | luo han guo (Siraitia grosvenorii); herbaceous perennial vine native to China and Thailand; fruit of the Siraita grosvenorii | |
| 字足らず | じたらず | waka, haiku, etc. with insufficient syllables | |
| 欧字集合 | おうじしゅうごう | alphabetic character set | |
| 赤十字社 | せきじゅうじしゃ | Red Cross (Society) | |
| 音標文字 | おんぴょうもじ | phonetic symbols | |
| ミドリ十字 | ミドリじゅうじ | Green Cross Corporation | |
| 漢朝 | かんちょう | Han dynasty (of China; 202 BCE-220 CE) | n1 |
| 別字 | べつじ | different letter; different character; different spelling | |
| 字喃 | チュノム | chu nom (formerly used Vietnamese script based on Chinese characters) | |
| 漢水 | かんすい | lye water (for making Chinese noodles) | |
| 漢英 | かんえい | Kanji to English (dictionary) | |
| 造字 | ぞうじ | kanji formation; character coinage | |
| 丸数字 | まるすうじ | circled number | |
| 合体字 | がったいじ | ligature | |
| 字詰め | じづめ | number of characters per line, page, etc. | |
| 正体字 | せいたいじ | traditional Chinese character; unsimplified Chinese character | |
| ひと文字 | ひともじ | one (written) character; Welsh onion; spring onion | |
| 全角文字 | ぜんかくもじ | full-width character; regular character in the JIS, Unicode, etc. standards | |
| 写真植字 | しゃしんしょくじ | phototypesetting; photocomposition | |
| 十六羅漢 | じゅうろくらかん | the sixteen arhats | |
| 同音異字 | どうおんいじ | homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different written form); heterography | |
| 図形文字 | ずけいもじ | graphic character | |
| 字句解析 | じくかいせき | lexical analysis | |
| 御目文字 | おめもじ | personal meeting (esp. used by females) | |
| 数字表記 | すうじひょうき | number notation; numeric notation; number designation | |
| 朝鮮文字 | ちょうせんもじ | Hangul (Korean script) | |
| 活字文化 | かつじぶんか | culture of the printed word; book culture | |
| 痴漢行為 | ちかんこうい | groping; molestation | |
| 神聖文字 | しんせいもじ | hieroglyph; hieroglyphics | |
| 累積赤字 | るいせきあかじ | accumulated deficit | |
| 英数文字 | えいすうもじ | alphanumeric character | |
| 赤字国債 | あかじこくさい | deficit-covering (government) bond | |
| 写真植字機 | しゃしんしょくじき | phototypesetter; phototypesetting machine | |
| 日本語文字 | にほんごもじ | Japanese character | |
| 十文字学園女子大学 | じゅうもんじがくえんじょしだいがく | Jūmonjigakuen Women's University | |
| 字間 | じかん | character spacing; space between letters or characters | n5 |
| 漢姓 | かんせい | Chinese surname; Chinese family name | n3 |
| 意字 | いじ | ideogram | n2 |
| 類字 | るいじ | similar kanji | n1 |
| 僻字 | へきじ | rare character; rare kanji | |
| 単字 | たんじ | individual character; individual letter; one character; one letter | |
| 国漢 | こっかん | Japanese and Chinese literature | |
| 墨字 | すみじ | printed characters (as opposed to Braille) | |
| 字林 | じりん | kanji dictionary | |
| 斜字 | しゃじ | oblique letter; slanting character | |
| 漢才 | かんざい | mastery of Chinese literature; Sinology | |
| 漢法 | かんぽう | kampō; traditional (herbal) medicine based on ancient Chinese medicine | |
| 漢竹 | からたけ | Chinese bamboo; bamboo imported from China (often used to make flutes); descending vertical sword attack (in kendo, etc.) | |
| 真字 | まな | kanji (as opposed to kana); printed style (of writing Chinese characters); square style; block style | |
| 置字 | おきじ | kanji left unpronounced when reading kanbun in Japanese; characters representing adverbs, conjunctions, etc. used in a letter | |
| 落字 | らくじ | omitted character; omitted letter | |
| 通字 | つうじ | distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage | |
| 連字 | れんじ | logotype; kanji compound | |
| 丁字帯 | ていじたい | T bandage | |
| 丁字路 | ていじろ | T junction | |
| 丸文字 | まるもじ | rounded handwriting | |
| 二文字 | ふたもじ | two characters; two letters; garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); Chinese chives | |
| 十字石 | じゅうじせき | staurolite | |
| 十字線 | じゅうじせん | crosshairs; cross hairs | |
| 卑劣漢 | ひれつかん | mean bastard; sneak; heel; despicable person | |
| 太文字 | ふともじ | boldface; bold-type; thick characters | |
| 文字声 | もじごえ | reading of a character; pronunciation of a character | |
| 文字面 | もじづら | appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning | |
| 木活字 | もっかつじ | printing type made from wood | |
| 東漢氏 | やまとのあやうじ | Yamato no Aya clan | |
| 正義漢 | せいぎかん | just person; man of justice; righteous person; upright person | |
| 活字化 | かつじか | putting into print; publishing; converting into digital text (e.g. speech, handwriting) | |
| 活字本 | かつじぼん | printed book | |
| 添え字 | そえじ | subscript; superscript; index | |
| 硬骨漢 | こうこつかん | man of principle; man of firm character; man of steadfast beliefs | |
| 簡体字 | かんたいじ | simplified Chinese character | |
| 袋文字 | ふくろもじ | open face | |
| 金文字 | きんもじ | gold lettering; gilt letters | |
| 鉤十字 | かぎじゅうじ | swastika (in its clockwise form, esp. as a Nazi symbol) | |
| 銀文字 | ぎんもじ | silver-gilt letters; silvery letters | |
| 青文字 | あおもじ | Litsea cubeba | |
| 全角数字 | ぜんかくすうじ | full-width digit | |
| 半角文字 | はんかくもじ | half-width character; single-byte character (ASCII, single-byte kana from JIS 201, etc.) | |
| 古代文字 | こだいもじ | ancient script; ancient character; ancient alphabet | |
| 天平宝字 | てんぴょうほうじ | Tenpyō-hōji era (757.8.18-765.1.7) | |
| 字句単位 | じくたんい | lexical unit; lexical token | |
| 悉曇文字 | しったんもじ | Siddham script | |
| 文字位置 | もじいち | character position | |
| 文字放送 | もじほうそう | teletext broadcasting | |
| 文字言葉 | もじことば | word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" | |
| 文字認識 | もじにんしき | character recognition | |
| 有効数字 | ゆうこうすうじ | significant figures; significant digits | |
| 楔状文字 | けつじょうもじ | cuneiform (writing) | |
| 漢字字典 | かんじじてん | kanji dictionary; Chinese character dictionary | |
| 終端文字 | しゅうたんもじ | final character | |
| 英字集合 | えいじしゅうごう | alphabetic character set | |
| 財政赤字 | ざいせいあかじ | budget deficit | |
| 赤字路線 | あかじろせん | loss-making line (railway, bus, etc.); unprofitable route | |
| 邦字新聞 | ほうじしんぶん | Japanese-language newspaper (printed outside Japan) | |
| 非英数字 | ひえいすうじ | non-alphanumeric character | |
| 音素文字 | おんそもじ | segmental script | |
| 拡張新字体 | かくちょうしんじたい | extended shinjitai; unofficial simplified forms of kanji not included in the jōyō list | |
| 活字鋳造所 | かつじちゅうぞうしょ | type foundry | |
| 日本点字図書館 | にほんてんじとしょかん | Japan Braille Library | |
| 変字 | へんじ | conversion; converted character | n5 |
| 洋字 | ようじ | characters used by Western civilization (esp. the Latin alphabet) | n4 |
| 無字 | むじ | the one-character reply ("no") offered by Zhaozhou to the question "Does a dog have Buddha nature?" | n2 |
| 華字 | かじ | Chinese character | n2 |
| 訛字 | かじ | variant kanji form; unorthodox kanji form; incorrect kanji form | n2 |
| 譌字 | かじ | variant kanji form; unorthodox kanji form; incorrect kanji form | n2 |
| 文字典 | じてん | dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary | n2 |
| 快漢 | かいかん | pleasant fellow | n1 |
| 書字 | しょじ | written form | n1 |
| 畳字 | じょうじ | iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character) | n1 |
| 疑字 | ぎじ | character of questionable form | n1 |
| 省字 | しょうじ | simplification of a kanji | n1 |
| 黙字 | もくじ | silent letter | n1 |
| 丸字 | まるじ | rounded handwriting | |
| 借字 | しゃくじ | kanji used for sound equivalence | |
| 倭字 | わじ | native Japanese characters (i.e. hiragana and katakana); kana; kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji | |
| 内字 | ないじ | internal character | |
| 凸字 | とつじ | raised type (to assist visually impaired readers); embossed lettering | |
| 切字 | きれじ | punctuation words in haiku, renga, etc. such as "ya", "kana", "keri", etc. | |
| 削字 | さくじ | designing a font; creating a new character not currently available | |
| 字凧 | じだこ | kite with a (kanji or kana) character written on it | |
| 字眼 | じがん | decisive character (Chinese poetry) | |
| 字華 | チーハ | chee fah; chiffa; gambling game in which players buy a lined paper with 36 words on it and try and guess the word the dealer has chosen | |
| 字訳 | じやく | transliteration | |
| 字詰 | じづめ | number of characters per line, page, etc. | |
| 実字 | じつじ | kanji character with a concrete meaning | |
| 星漢 | せいかん | Milky Way | |
| 漢儒 | かんじゅ | Han dynasty Confucian scholar; Chinese Confucian scholar; Japanese Confucianist; Japanese sinologist | |
| 漢心 | からごころ | admiration of Chinese culture (as opposed to Japanese culture); the Chinese spirit; Chinese soul | |
| 漢氏 | あやうじ | Aya clan | |
| 漢直 | かんちょく | direct kanji input (as opposed to kana-kanji conversion) | |
| 癖字 | くせじ | characters that are difficult to read; poor handwriting | |
| 踊字 | おどりじ | iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark | |
| 躍字 | おどりじ | iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark | |
| 霄漢 | しょうかん | sky; heavens; firmament | |
| 青漢 | せいかん | wide open sky; the blue; heavens; firmament | |
| い文字 | いもじ | squid | |
| うそ字 | うそじ | incorrectly written character; kanji written with the wrong strokes; wrongly used kanji | |
| か文字 | かもじ | mother; wife | |
| くせ字 | くせじ | characters that are difficult to read; poor handwriting | |
| くの字 | くのじ | the hiragana character "ku"; chevron-shaped; dogleg-shaped | |
| こ文字 | こもじ | koi carp; flour | |
| さ文字 | さもじ | fish; mackerel | |
| す文字 | すもじ | sushi | |
| に文字 | にもじ | garlic (Allium sativum) | |
| のの字 | ののじ | loop; shape of a hiragana "no" | |
| への字 | へのじ | mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners | |
| ほの字 | ほのじ | the L-word (i.e. love); being in love | |
| イ文字 | いもじ | Yi script (used to write the Yi languages) | |
| コの字 | コのじ | U-shape | |
| ホの字 | ほのじ | the L-word (i.e. love); being in love | |
| 丁字形 | ていじけい | T-shaped | |
| 丁字桜 | ちょうじざくら | clove cherry (Prunus apetala) | |
| 丁字油 | ちょうじゆ | clove oil | |
| 不徳漢 | ふとくかん | crook; swindler | |
| 五文字 | ごもじ | five characters; five letters; five-syllable verse of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.; first five syllables of a waka, haiku, renga, etc. | |
| 人文字 | ひともじ | arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message | |
| 作り字 | つくりじ | made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; arranging a group of things or people to form a character; kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China) | |
| 借り字 | しゃくじ | kanji used for sound equivalence | |
| 倭漢氏 | やまとのあやうじ | Yamato no Aya clan | |
| 偽十字 | ニセじゅうじ | False Cross (asterism) | |
| 八の字 | はちのじ | figure eight; figure of eight; shape of "hachi", the kanji for eight | |
| 八字髭 | はちじひげ | finely trimmed moustache | |
| 其文字 | そもじ | you | |
| 写字室 | しゃじしつ | scriptorium | |
| 十字座 | じゅうじざ | Crux (constellation) | |
| 千字文 | せんじもん | The Thousand Character Classic | |
| 南十字 | みなみじゅうじ | Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) | |
| 単漢字 | たんかんじ | single kanji | |
| 印字欄 | いんじらん | print zone | |
| 右万字 | みぎまんじ | right-facing swastika; clockwise swastika | |
| 品字藻 | ひんじも | star duckweed (Lemna trisulca); ivy duckweed | |
| 品文字 | しなもじ | triangular pattern of objects | |
| 唐文字 | からもじ | Chinese characters; kanji | |