Meanings

writing style used to write the rankings

Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment

(words with) different kanji but the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning)

a single word

letter by letter

letter by letter

Eight Principles of Yong

addiction to the printed word

oracle bone script

right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)

four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)

Chinese four-character phrase or idiomatic expression

U-shape

kanji test

S-shape

kanji compound

kanji aptitude test (esp. the Kanji Kentei)

Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations)

foreign-language newspaper

horizontal script (esp. of a European language)