Kōshaku, however, is more commonly translated as " Duke " to avoid confusion with the following royal ranks in the Imperial Household: Shinnō ( literally, King of the Blood ); female Naishinnō ( lit., Queen ( by herself ) of the Blood ); and Shinnōhi lit., Consort of King of the Blood ); or Ō ( lit., King ); female, Jyo-Ō ( lit., Queen ( by herself )); and Ōhi ( lit., Consort of King ).

Sadaharu Oh, or Wang Chenchih (, Hepburn: Ō Sadaharu, born May 20, 1940 ), is a retired Japanese-Chinese baseball player and manager.

is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century ( 711-712 ) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Gemmei.

An example of a publication in Latvia today, albeit one aimed at the Latvian diaspora, that uses the older orthography — and hence, also the letters CH, Ō and Ŗ — is the weekly newspaper Brīvā Latvija.

When greeting someone you know, it is common to begin with the word o, followed by the person's first name: Ō, Khalafalla or Ō, kēf ya Khalafalla.

The oldest written work in Japanese literature is Kojiki in 712, in which Ō no Yasumaro recorded Japanese mythology and history as recited by Hieda no Are, to whom it was handed down by his ancestors.

' Ōtara ' is in turn the shortened form of Te Puke Ō Tara ( literally ; ‘ The Hill of Tara ’); known also for a time as Smales Mount.

Like most of Auckland, the Ōtara landscape is volcanic in origin and forms a part of what is known as the East Tāmaki volcanic field, with Te Puke Ō Tara and Mātanginui ( Greenmount ) having been the dominant cones of Ōtara.

* 1958 – Rissei Ō, Japanese professional Go player

His ideas were influenced by the Chinese intellectual Wang Yangming ( Ō Yōmei in Japanese ), who had argued for innate knowing, that mankind had a naturally intuitive ( as opposed to rational ) ability to distinguish good and evil.

* O ( surname ), anglicized as Ō, ( 王 ), a Japanese family name

from the Smales Mount / Puke Ō Tara estate on the remains of the original cone now form reserve known as Te Puke Ō Tara Hampton Park, which includes a stone church built in the 1860s and the remains of extensive stone walls from Smales ' farm, both constructed from the quarried scoria.

The most powerful omi added the prefix Ō ( 大 ) to omi and was referred to as Ōomi ( 大臣 ).

In prehistoric times, a tribe of cavemen prepares to sacrifice a woman named Bel ( べる Beru ) to their deity, a dinosaur named O-D-O ( おーでぃーおー Ō Dī Ō ).

Like the omi, the most powerful muraji added the prefix Ō ( 大 ) to muraji and was referred to as Ōmuraji ( 大連 ).

Unusually, the name is written in a mixture of two Japanese scripts: Katakana ( ドラ ) and Hiragana ( えもん ).

Hiragana is used to write native words for which there are no kanji, including particles such as から kara " from ", and suffixes such as さん ~ san " Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms ." Likewise, hiragana is used to write words whose kanji form is obscure, not known to the writer or readers, or too formal for the writing purpose.

Hiragana is also used to give the pronunciation of kanji in a reading aid called furigana.

Nursery Rhyme Cards ) is a version of karuta made of famous Japanese nursery rhymes sang to music to help young children learn the Japanese writing system called Hiragana.

Hiragana is the more widely used script in Japan today, while katakana, meant for formal documents originally, is used similarly to italics in alphabetic scripts.

( Note that while these prefixes are almost always in Hiragana — that is, as お o-or ご go — the kanji 御 is used for both o and go prefixes in formal writing.

Shiatsu ( Kanji: 指圧 Hiragana: しあつ ) is Japanese for " finger pressure "; it is a type of alternative medicine consisting of finger and palm pressure, stretches, and other massage techniques.

Kegon ( Kanji: 華厳 Hiragana: けごん ) is the name of the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism.

Nippon ( Hiragana: にっぽん ) is a reading of kanji 日本 that refers to Japan.

In modern times, the role is also referred to as tsukibito ( Kanji: 付き人 Hiragana: つきびと literally, " attached person ").

On March 3, 2006 the village of Natashō, from Onyū District, was merged into Ōi, which is since written with Hiragana instead of Kanji.

Aiki-ken ( Kanji: 合気剣 Hiragana: あいきけん ) is the name given specifically to the set of Japanese sword techniques practiced according to the principles of aikido, taught first by Morihei Ueshiba ( aikido's founder ), then further developed by Morihiro Saito, one of Ueshiba's most prominent students.

No translation with Hiragana is extremely unhelpful for non-Japanese.

Hiragana Times ( ひらがな タイムズ ) is a magazine published in Japan, written for foreigners residing in Japan.

The Hiragana Times is unique in that all the articles are written in both English and Japanese, with no bias between the languages.

Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems ; they have corresponding character sets in which each kana, or character, represents one mora ( one sound in the Japanese language ).

This cryptographic concept has been used with Japanese Hiragana and the Germans in the later years of the First World War.

Japanese and Korean share the same ancient Chinese words ' 月曜日 ' ( Hiragana: げつようび, Hangul: 월요일 ) for Monday which means day of the moon.

The Japanese language has a tripartite writing system using Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.

The syllabary of Vai also been compared to Hiragana and Katakana scripts also syllabaries for Japanese language.

* Ginsu knives have a Japanese-sounding name " Ginsu " ( Kanji Japanese: 銀簾, Hiragana: ぎんす ) but are made in America by Douglas Quikut

Japanese writing system | Japanese alphabet, including Hiragana, Katakana and " Imatto-canna ", a form of Hentaigana.

For a long time, the most esteemed calligrapher in Japan had been Wang Xizhi, a Chinese calligrapher in the 4th century but after the invention of Hiragana and Katakana, the Japanese unique syllabaries, the distinctive Japanese writing system developed and calligraphers produced styles intrinsic to Japan.

This version produced Japanese language error messages and supported the Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana character sets for variable names and character strings.

** Hiragana, used, along with kanji, for native or naturalised Japanese words, and for grammatical elements

* Shin ( Japanese name ) ( Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん ), a Japanese given name

In the 9th century, Japanese developed their own writing systems called Kana ( Hiragana and Katakana ) which support Kanji script to suit Japanese language.

Japanese ( Romanized Hiragana and Romanized Katakana ), Korean ( Hangul 2-bul ) and Traditional Chinese are currently supported.