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鈷杵
- There's only 三鈷杵 (sankosho), 五鈷杵 (gokosho), and 独鈷杵 (dokkosho) in Kotobank. ～ POKéTalker（═◉═） 14:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
草蔬 - Herbaceous Plants? When this gets added, I'll cross reference to Appendix:Gikun_Usage_in_Meiji_Version_of_Japanese_Bible/草蔬
- The Sino-Japanese reading would've been sōso. Anyway it doesn't exist in my honest opinion. ～ POKéTalker（═◉═） 14:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
後回
十天 - Jitten (Ten Devas)
益牛: wagyu beef?

Wagyu is 和牛. The Google suggests that this is (part of) the name of a restaurant – possibly a pun or something? Cnilep (talk) 02:46, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

段物 - a type of musical piece
自爾以降 - from then on
赤綱 - a sumo term
- I suspect this is simply 赤(あか) (aka, “red”) 綱(つな) (tsuna, “rope”), but perhaps it has some idiomatic meaning or a special reading? If not, it seems SoP. Ropes are used ceremonially in sumo; compare 横綱(よこづな) (yokozuna). Cnilep (talk) 00:13, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
笠子帽 - apparently a term for the Korean gat (traditional hat: 갓 (gat))

Hmm. 笠(かさ) (kasa) is a kind of hat (but a type of Asian conical hat, not the gat), and "hat" is 帽(ぼう)子(し) (bōshi). Do you have a text where it is used? Cnilep (talk) 02:36, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

好ハオ (no, not "好(ハオ)") - net slang

They are apparently the same thing, though: "「好ハオ」は「ハオ」と読みます。意味は、中国語の「好（ハオ）」と同じで、「良い」" (Written 「好ハオ」 is read hao. The meaning is the same as Chinese 好 "good") Cnilep (talk) 02:50, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

模合 - an Okinawan social support group

Kana entries and Kanji entries sorted by pronunciation

あ, ア (a)

青剃り (ao[s|z]ori) - shadow from shaving (hyponym: あおひげ) -- can't tell if 剃り is read as そり or ぞり —Suzukaze-c (talk) 06:59, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
頭(あたま)コンクリート (atama konkurīto) same as above - apparently only used in Taiwan(!), but is the origin of Taiwanese slang 阿達馬孔固力／阿达马孔固力 (ādámǎ kǒnggùlì) and possibly English concrete-head, which originated with some Japanese consultants in the '80s in the US.
暗殺拳 = Ansatsuken
アメリカンリーグ (Amerikan Rīgu), ア・リーグ (A Rīgu)

い, イ (i)

慰霊式(いれいしき) (ireishiki) - See also 慰霊(いれい) (irei) and 式(しき) (shiki).
いっか (Ikka) — Male given name; e.g. 松(まつ)木(き)いっか (Matsuki Ikka). See also jisho:ikka #names. Emanuele6 (talk) 06:46, 14 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

う, ウ (u)

憂(うりょ)う (uryō) - both うりょう and うれう are possible; also with okurigana 憂ふ (憂fu)

I created うれう and ja-see for 憂う and other kanji. I didn't find うりょう, but I didn't look very hard. Cnilep (talk) 03:39, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

え, エ (e)

縁(えん)の下(した)の小豆(あずき)の木(き) (ennoshita no azuki no ki) — a proverb, possibly related to 縁の下の力持ち, "unsung hero"

エデンへ落(お)ちろ！ (eden e ochiro!) — lit. "Go to Eden!" — from the 2006 Manga/2011 anime, Nichijou [1] (My Original Life); a euphemism of 地獄(じごく)に落(お)ちろ！ (jigoku ni ochiro!), "Go to Hell!"
@BFDICream: Is it usually just uttered as a Nichijou reference, or does it have wider usage? —Fish bowl (talk) 23:17, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not too sure myself, but it seems to be popular enough to be printed on a sweatshirt. https://www.ttrinity.jp/product/2635771 BFDICream (talk) 21:10, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

お, オ (o)

往(おう)生(じょう)こく (ōjōkoku) — (Nagoya) "to experience hardship"
オッチャホイ (otchahoi) — I can only find this in the context of names of eating establishments, and the romanization is otchahoi. --Haplology (talk) 10:27, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
親捨て — presumably おやすて, by analogy to 姥捨(うばす)て (ubasute), but I haven't seen it attested. Cnilep (talk) 03:41, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
大(おお)拍(かっ)子(こ) (ōkakko) (also called "o-kakko")

I can find daibyōshi and (mention of) ōbyōshi, but not ōkakko. Any pointers to texts with the latter? Cnilep (talk) 05:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

か, カ (ka, ga)

勝速日(かちはやひ) (kachihayahi)（かつはやひ） - used in aikido
ガチムチ (gachimuchi), gachimuchi

This is apparently (part of) the nickname of body builder w:ja:Billy Herrington, and some user-generated sites say it is used generically for someone with a dad bod: ガッチリでぽっちゃり (muscular yet chubby). Cnilep (talk) 06:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

管理作業員(かんりさぎょういん) (kanrisagyōin)

This strikes me as a sum of its parts: 管理 (management) + 作業 (operation) + 員 (person; member) = "a person involved in management operations". Breen's WWWJDIC includes 管理作業 (which it glosses as "management task; management function"), but none of the other dictionaries I have readily at hand just now (Genius, Ōbunsha, Meikyō) list even that much as a single compound. Cnilep (talk) 05:38, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

かじつしゅう (kajitsushū) (suggested by User:Separg)

Could it be 果(か)実(じつ)酒(しゅ) (kajitsushu, “cider, wine”)? Cnilep (talk) 05:24, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

重(かさ)ね信(しん)じる (kasaneshinjiru)
カンプラ (kanpura) - I've seen this localized as "taters" in season 2, episode 7 of Jujutsu Kaisen [Clip of the exact moment], although it could conceivably have been referring to アンドレ・カンプラ (André Campra). Google does turn up a few images of potato dishes, mainly 味噌カンプラ (miso kanpura).--Puzzledude (talk) 06:56, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
壁尻(かべしり) (kabeshiri) - the state of being stuck in a wall and sticking out one's butt (mainly used in adult content)
還暦土俵入(かんれきどひょうい)り (kanreki dohyōiri) - a sumo term
- Strikes me as SOP: 還暦(かんれき) (kanreki, “sixtieth birthday, 60 year old”) + 土俵入(どひょうい)り (dohyōiri, “sumo ring-entering ceremony”). Cnilep (talk) 00:13, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
カートンパック (kāton pakku)

き, キ (ki, gi)

亀(きっ)甲(こう)縛(しば)り (kikkōshibari) - bondage type
金環食(きんかんしょく) (kinkanshoku) - annular eclipse, What 'pitch accents' and 'references' are required?

く, ク (ku, gu)

グミベア (gumibea) - gummy bear

The candy is typically called グミ, though there is apparently a novelty song 「ぼくはグミベア」 (I Am Gummy Bear). Cnilep (talk) 06:14, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

クックシスター (kukkushisutā) (Koeksister) - see [2]
くねくね (kunekune) - missing sense, see Wikipedia article "Kunekune (urban legend)"
くそごみ (kusogomi) - something that is shit+trash, also written ごみくそ (gomikuso) trash+shit

け, ケ (ke, ge)

結婚式式場(けっこんしきしきじょう) (kekkonshiki shikijō, “wedding venue”), also sometimes 結婚式々場 - the standard form is probably SOP, but the form with 々 is a nonstandard use of the iteration mark.
啄木鳥(けら) (kera) — “けら”, in goo辞書‎^[3] (in Japanese) (dictionary), Goo, 26 August 2025 (last accessed), archived from the original on 20 June 2025

こ, コ (ko, go)

言霊の幸わう国 (ことたまのさきわうくに, kototama no sakiwau kuni)

This is a line from 万葉集: happy country of the language of the soul (i.e., Japan). 言霊の幸わう (~幸せ) 国. The archaic 幸(さき)わう (sakiwau) / 幸(さきは)ふ (sakihafu) might bear an entry. Cnilep (talk) 06:34, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently requested by @I'm so meta even this acronym. Created 言霊の幸う国, how about this spelling? ～ POKéTalker（═◉═） 21:17, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

言霊学 (ことだまがく, kotodamagaku), from 言霊 (ことだま, kotodama)
Shogakukan is really good about indicating historical kana spellings, as is Daijirin, and neither give any indication of a tama reading in this compound -- it always takes rendaku. Googling about appears to confirm this. I've tweaked the above request to use the rendaku-ed dama reading instead.
My apologies for the erroneous request; it was based upon w:Kotodama, whose second paragraph reads "This Japanese compound kotodama combines koto 言 "word; speech" and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku. In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to kototamagaku (言霊学^?, "study of kotodama"), which was popularized by Onisaburo Deguchi in the Oomoto religion. […]" Clearly, the Wikipedia article has incorrect content. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 15:47, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The first two paragraphs of the EN WP article look like they might be partially a translation of content in the JA WP article ja:w:言霊. I note that the JA WP article itself is entirely unsourced, with the revision history showing some apparent edit-sparring (not quite full-out edit-warring). The JA WP article on ja:w:言霊学 was apparently deleted in 2012 due to being original research, and I think the article had been written by user Nanakusa Mike (ja:w:User:七草みけ), as indicated by that user's own page describing writing the article (left side of this diff). That user was also the one who added the content on the JA WP article ja:w:言霊 that added the mention of 言霊学 and expanded upon the kototama reading, in this edit back in 2007.

Poking around in the history of the w:Kotodama article, I find that w:User:Keahapana added the content about the kototama reading in this edit in 2007. No references or sources were given.

Given that the UVA online copy of the w:Man'yōshū at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/manyoshu/ doesn't list any kototama reading, using only kotodama from what I've been able to find (see searching for ことたま vs. searching for ことだま), I'm strongly tempted to think that the kototama reading is either 1) bogus, or 2) extremely rare. More research is probably in order, though, before entirely ruling it out, given our low CFI bar of only three valid citations. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 09:41, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for undertaking that extraordinary amount of investigatory work. I, for one, am certainly satisfied that ことだまがく is the spelling that I should have requested. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 13:51, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. :) I realized that I needed to do more looking before I could categorically rule out the existence of a kototamagaku reading, so this was all useful background research for eventually creating the 言霊学 entry (or editing it, if someone else beats me to it). ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 16:51, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
コーヒー割り (kōhī-wari) - a mixed drink made from coffee added to either shochu OR awamori?? (Compare 水割り) — hippietrail (talk) 14:20, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This might be better as 割り "mixed or diluted with". In addition to 水割り there is お湯割り、ウーロン茶割、ジュース割、コーラ割り、 etc. Cnilep (talk) 03:50, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Cnilep. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 05:07, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
古神宝類(こしんぽうるい) (koshinpōrui) - old shrine treasure
- 古神宝 (koshinpō, Nipponica article) + 類 (-rui), most likely SOP. ～ POKéTalker（═◉═） 14:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Or perhaps 古(こ) (ko-, “old”) + 神宝(しんぽう) (shinpō, “sacred treasure”) + 類(るい) (-rui, “type of”)? Cnilep (talk) 05:57, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
ご注文(ちゅうもん) (gochūmon). Compound of ご +‎ 注文

See 御(ご)- (go). The honorific/"beautification" prefix can affix to most any noun (pronounced ご or お depending on yomi class), making this SoP in my opinion (but compare e.g. 御主人(ごしゅじん) (go-shujin)). Cnilep (talk) 05:28, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

爰(ここ)に (kokoni) attested here(at the beginning), if that helps

See ここ (koko, “here”); に (ni) is a locative particle. Cnilep (talk) 05:45, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

コミカン (komikan) type of mandarin orange; see English Wikipedia

Although English Wikipedia has w:Komikan (fruit), the cultivar is apparently called w:ja:サクラジマミカン (Sakurajima mikan) or sometimes 桜島小蜜柑 (Sakurajima komikan) in Japanese. Cnilep (talk) 01:19, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

国民軍(こくみんぐん) (kokumingun) kokumingun (Japanese national guard? compare kokumin)
- By parts, 国民(こくみん) (kokumin) means "the nation" or "the people" and 軍(ぐん) (gun) means "armed forces", but Japan's national defense force is called 自衛隊(じえいたい) (jieitai). I think this combination is SoP, but I'll look for examples in newspaper archives. Cnilep (talk) 04:38, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  - As I expected, it is easy enough to find referring to various national armies, but I think the usage is sum-of-parts. See Citations:国民軍. Cnilep (talk) 05:44, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
幸若舞(こうわかまい) (kōwakamai)

さ, サ (sa, za)

ザッパ (zappa). abbr of 大雑把
サイクル安打(あんだ) (saikuru anda)
サンタン (santan) - suntan (darkening of the skin), missing Japanese
差(さ)読(どく) (sadoku) http://codh.rois.ac.jp/bukan/diff/ - need to see if this is a novel coinage by CODH or not
さわり (sawari) - buzzing sound on shamisen and biwa

し, シ (shi, ji)

色彩設計(しきさいせっけい) (shikisaisekkei) – per Appendix:Japanese film credit terms. SoP? See 色彩(しきさい) (shikisai) and 設計(せっけい) (sekkei)
次候(じこう) (jikō): w:ja:次候
しず (shizu) soft-redirected to at 静#Etymology_3

Not really a word, is it? Digital Daijisen includes it as a 語素(ごそ) (goso, “morpheme”) of 静心(しずこころ) (shizukokoro); maybe a prefix, but I'm not sure it's productive. Cnilep (talk) 00:21, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Eirikr added {{ja-see|しず}} to 静#Etymology 3(diff), so I assume it was an entry he was going to create. If しず (shizu) doesn’t belong in an entry, 静#Etymology 3 should be deleted, since it has no usable content. Mcph2 (talk) 00:58, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

宿泊施設(しゅくはくしせつ) (shukuhakushisetsu) - hotel or similar accommodation?

SoP: 宿泊(しゅくはく) (shukuhaku, “lodging”) 施設(しせつ) (shisetsu, “facility”) Cnilep (talk) 03:46, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

初候(しょこう) (shokō): w:ja:初候

す, ス (su, zu)

すしっ子(こ) (sushikko). In a Tokyo sushi menu. Seems to be a synonym for とびお from the picture. Google hits are hard to come by. I can provide a digital photo as a citation. — hippietrail 23:28, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I could be wrong...but I thought a sushiko was a sushi rice mold. They are usually rectangular trays like ice cube trays. I could also imagine the word sushiko also meaning mini-sushi or baby-sushi. tobio/tobiko means flying fish roe in Japanese, so any type of sushi: onigiri, chirashi zushi, futomaki, etc, could be tobiko sushi. meskarune 16:08, 28 February 2009 (UTC - 5h)
スーパーデフォルメ (sūpādeforume)

See デフォルメ and スーパー. Cnilep (talk) 00:52, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

スワイ (suwai) - net slang from Thai

せ, セ (se, ze)

銭神(ぜにがみ) (zenigami); Daijiten, see zenshin below
銭瓶(ぜにがめ) (zenigame, literally “coin bottle?”), same link as zenigami
銭神(ぜんしん) (zenshin); Daijiten, synonym of 金銭 (kinsen, “coins”), made sacred from kami?
生鮮館(せいせんかん) (seisenkan) - supermarket fresh goods section? fresh produce market? has an entry on Goo but not in WWWJDIC. Maybe it's SOP but in that case what does it mean exactly?
Given the search results at Kotobank and the JA WP, this appears to be the name, or part of the name, of a couple different supermarket chains. It basically parses out to 生鮮 (seisen, “fresh; perishable (in reference to food)”) + 館 (kan, “large building”). ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 22:04, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
IMO, it depends on how predictable usage of the word "館" here is. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 04:28, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
セプテット (seputetto) - Septet? Seen in this video's description. Acolyte of Ice (talk) 14:17, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
セクサロイド (sekusaroido) - pseudo-anglicism of "sexaroid" that's translated by pixiv's tagging system as "sex robot", see WT:REE#S

そ, ソ (so, zo)

創氏(そうし) (sōshi) - backformation of 創氏改名?
ソープ嬢(じょう) (sōpujō) - girl who works in soapland

た, タ (ta, da)

たまへり (tamaheri). 給へり (tama-eri, 給ふ (tamou)+り(助動詞))?
This appears to be classical usage, given the verb ending. The verb 給う (tamau) can broadly mean “superior giving or granting something to an inferior”, or simply convey an honorific on the agent of a verb when used after the て (te) form of another verb. The り (ri) ending here is almost certainly the classical perfective auxiliary verb, which follows the 已然形 (izenkei, “realis”) or 命令形 (meireikei, “imperative”) form (mostly indistinguishable, as both use the -e ending) of 四段活用 (yodan katsuyō, “quadrigrade conjugation”) verbs.

So yes, 給へり (tamaeri) == 給う (tamau) + り (-ri) == modern 給った (tamatta). ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

大斜: As in the taisha joseki, see also https://senseis.xmp.net/?Taisha and https://senseis.xmp.net/?TaishaJoseki . Also missing at たいしゃ.
畳化(たたみか) (tatamika) Japanization of foreigners living in Japan

I've found two instances of this (at least orthographically), but both are literal glosses of French tatamiser (“be steeped in Japanese culture”). See also タタミゼ on Japanese Wikipedia. Cnilep (talk) 03:36, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

タッカンマリ (takkanmari) Takkanmari, apparently from Korean. A Japanese user in a PM on hellotalk mentioned this. Digital Daijisen entry exists @ https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA-2095418 Chuterix (talk) 01:56, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
抱(だ)きしめ合(あ)う (dakishimeau)
ダブル太陽(たいよう) (daburutaiyō)
ダーウィン賞(しょう) (Dāwinshō) - Darwin Award
単走(たんそう) (tansō) solo run: In drifting, a Japanese term for individual passes where drivers are observed by judges in an attempt for the top spot. (from Wikipedia)
たまごっち (tamagotchi)
タマヒュン (tamahyun) (slang) ball‑tightening/stomach‑drop sensation
大丈夫(だいじょうぶ)?おっぱい揉(も)む? (daijōbu? oppai momu?) - phrase: "are you alright? do you want to rub some boobs?"

ち, チ (chi, ji)

つ, ツ (tsu, zu)

繋(つな)ぎ合(あ)う (tsunagiau) - to connect/join/link?

I sometimes hear this (if memory serves) of people or groups of people, but a quick search didn't turn it up in newspapers. Maybe informal? Compare 繋(つな)ぐ (tsunagu). Cnilep (talk) 04:29, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

て, テ (te, de)

鉄壁(てっぺき)スカート (teppeki sukāto) - (slang?, jocular?) a skirt that never changes shape (defying gravity, etc), rendering panties forever unseen

Hmm, lots of hits on the web, but none that I can find in published books, even manga. Also – キモい! I added 鉄壁, though. Cnilep (talk) 04:05, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

鉄砲玉(てっぽうだま) (teppōdama) - bullet; lost or truant messanger; certain kind of candy; hopeless swimmer (金槌(かなづち) (kanazuchi)); gunshop harlot?, gun prostitute?; (yakuza slang) hitman. Kotobank. Wikipedia JP. I saw this word being used in the sense of “non-returner” (a dying person). — Saumya (talk) 13:17, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
手(て)がはなせない (tegahanasenai) - (idiomatic?) unable to leave the work at hand; right in the middle of something; tied up; busy Realmayus (talk) 13:27, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seems SoP to me: 手(て) (te) "hands", as a metonym for "work", plus the negative potential form (i.e. "unable to do") of 離(はな)す (hanasu, “separate, leave”). But, 手が離せない is in Daijisen (though not other works) on Kotobank. Cnilep (talk) 01:36, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

電気按摩(でんきあんま) (denkianma) - The act of grabbing someone by the legs and pushing your foot into their crotch. Also, a vibrator.
手(て)を取(と)り歩く (te o tori歩ku) - to take someone's hand and walk, walk hand in hand? See 手を取る.

と, ト (to, do)

同輩中(どうはいちゅう)の首席(しゅせき) (dōhaichū no shuseki) = primus inter pares
同曲(どうきょく) (dōkyoku) - a term used in gagaku
トゥボル式゠(しき゠)クワーティ (tuborushiki-kuwāti)
ドルフィンショーツ (dorufin shōtsu), ドルフィンパンツ (dorufin pantsu) - dolphin shorts
トぶ (tobu) - alt spelling 跳ぶ / 飛ぶ "to get high"

な, ナ (na)

ナショナルリーグ (Nashonaru Rīgu), ナ・リーグ (Na Rīgu)

に, ニ (ni)

nii -- 兄/にい. colloquial. It means elder brother literally. there are many variants that has big different impressions: お兄ちゃん (oniichan)/兄ちゃん (niichan)/兄さん (niisan)/兄様 (niisama)/お兄 (onii)/兄 (nii), etc... お(o)- and -様(sama) are polite, -ちゃん(-chan) is cute-ish(?), -さん(-san) is general, omission(お兄(おにい,onii)) is boyish, 兄(にい,nii) is young-ish(?), 兄(あに,ani) is often used for talking with friends.
二色旗(にしょくき) (nishokuki) - a flag of two color

ぬ, ヌ (nu)

ね, ネ (ne)

ねばならない (-neba naranai, “must”) after 未然形(みぜんけい) (mizenkei) - see ja:ねばならない, fr:ねばならない Emanuele6 (talk) 22:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
ねばならぬ (-neba naranu, “must”) after 未然形(みぜんけい) (mizenkei) - alternative form of ねばならない (-neba naranai) with a fossilised (archaic) ぬ (-nu); e.g. in the quote in へ#Usage notes, in the title of LamazeP (2022-08-24), “なさねばならぬ (Nasaneba naranu)”‎^[4]performed by Hatsune Miku, etc. Emanuele6 (talk) 22:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
猫(ねこ)のゲロ (neko no gero) = derogatory nickname for shimotsukare (lit. "cat's barf")

の, ノ (no)

ノーパン喫茶(きっさ) (nōpankissa) - establishment where waiters work without panties

は, ハ (ha, ba, pa)

百度(ひゃくど) (Hyakudo) - missing Japanese
ぱっくんちょ (pakkuncho)

Could it be パックンチョ, a brand of chocolate biscuit? Cnilep (talk) 04:27, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, it's nice to know about the chocolate brand. The (hiragana) word ぱっくんちょ appears to have some other meanings according to Jisho dictionary entry. It also seems to be the origin of the Japanese name of the Piranha Plant from Mario games, as seen at the bottom of this wiki page. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 01:55, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ひ, ヒ (hi, bi, pi)

菱縄縛(ひしなわしば)り (hishinawashibari) - bondage type, synonym of 亀甲縛(きっこうしば)り (kikkōshibari)

ふ, フ (fu, bu, pu)

ぶっともも (buttomomo) - slang for thick thighs, based on ふともも (futomomo)
部分月食(ぶぶんげっしょく) (bubungesshoku) - partial lunar eclipse, What 'pitch accents' are required?
福司, 福止(ふくし) (Fukushi) - two homophone surnames. I can't think of anyone with either name off the top of my head, but both are listed at ふくし. Cnilep (talk) 03:59, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

へ, ヘ (he, be, pe)

ヘアアイロン (heāiron), ヘアーアイロン (heāairon, “hair iron”) - Add images of File:Hair straightener TTH2510 by Tescom (2015-09-19).JPG, File:Woman Using Hair Straighteners 02.jpg. / Please enter the description in a format similar to that on the プランク#Etymology 3 page.

ほ, ホ (ho, bo, po)

ほける (hokeru)

ま, マ (ma)

末候(まっこう) (makkō): w:ja:末候
巻(ま)き焼(や)き鍋(なべ) (makiyaki nabe) makiyakinabe, a type of cooking pan, see makiyakinabe
- Seems SoP to me: [巻(ま)き (maki, “roll”) + 焼(や)き (yaki, “cooking, grilling”)] + 鍋(なべ) (nabe, “pan, pot”). The pan is also called a 卵(たまご)焼(や)き鍋(なべ) (tamagoyaki nabe, “tamago-yaki pan”). Cnilep (talk) 04:14, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
豆(まめ)を植(う)えて稗(ひえ)を得(え)る (mame o uete hie o eru, “to do something expecting good results, instead getting bad results”)
マルチゴール (maruchi gōru, “brace”): two goals scored by one player in a game

み, ミ (mi)

緑(みどり)のおばさん (midori no obasan)
ミルクカートン (miruku kāton)
三(み)つ指(ゆび) (mitsuyubi)

む, ム (mu)

迎(むか)えに行(い)く (mukae ni iku) + 迎(むか)えに来(く)る (mukae ni kuru)

Seems SoP to me: 迎え (“meeting”) + に (locative) + 行く (“go”)/来る (“come”), "go (come) to meet"

結(むす)び合(あ)う (musubiau)

め, メ (me)

メガネスト (meganesuto), 眼鏡(メガネ)スト (meganesuto)
I saw this earlier today but I've already forgotten where. Is this citable? See Nico Nico Pedia and Pixiv Encyclopedia. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 06:28, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citations:メガネスト —Suzukaze-c (talk) 02:28, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
目(め)と目(め)が合(あ)う (me to me ga au) - Expression meaning eye to eye or eyes meeting?

も, モ (mo)

縺(もつ)れ絡(から)む (motsurekaramu)

や, ヤ (ya)

屋台村(やたいむら) (yataimura) - a collection of food stalls like mini izakayas. I've been to one in Yamagata and one in (I think) Kagoshima. Lots of Google hits but not in WWWJDIC. I thought I'd requested it here a year or two ago but can't find any evidence of it. — hippietrail (talk) 11:58, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Arguably SoP, with 村(むら) (mura) in the sense of "gathering". Neither Nikkoku nor Obunsha include the compound; Kenkyusha Daijiten gives it under 屋台. Cnilep (talk) 08:52, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ゆ, ユ (yu)

よ, ヨ (yo)

ら, ラ (ra)

らし (a classical japanese auxiliary verb expressing conjecture)
乱声 (ranjō, “free tune”, a term used in gagaku)
ランランルー - Hiragana is also included → らんらんるー

り, リ (ri)

流星嵐(りゅうせい　あらし) (ryūsei arashi) SoP? See 流星 and 嵐. 和英大辞典 gives it as a collocation at 流星, but not as a headword. Compare 流星群, which occurs in 大辞典, 中辞典, and others. Cnilep (talk) 04:13, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
りゅうどおしょく (ryūdōshoku) (suggested by User:Separg)
流動食 (ryūdōshoku, “liquid diet”)? (User:Perigrinate Avellana)

る, ル (ru)

れ, レ (re)

ろ, ロ (ro)

わ, ワ (wa)

久田(わだ) (wada)
@0DF do you mean as a surname? That's a fairly deep cut. I think that the name 和田(わだ) (Wada) is more common, as are 久田(ひさだ) (Hisada), 久田(くた) (Kuta), etc. FWIW I can't think of any notable people with that surname. Cnilep (talk) 23:21, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Cnilep: IIRC, I got this term from わだ, which carries the warning “(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 曲, 海, 久田.)”. 0DF (talk) 16:27, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ゐ, ヰ (wi)

ゑ, ヱ (we)

を, ヲ (wo)

ん, ン (n)

ん゙ ('n) - a guttural "hmm"; see example at 濁点

Unsorted kana

警固焼き - a Korean-style dish
榎葉 - enoha/hackberry (a type of tree)
粕漬け - a type of pickle made with sake yeast