Dictionary

Words

mixture of both culture and vulgarism
Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)
reading-book ②textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener
term used in translation ②word borrowed and translated from another language
mother tongue (from the island where one was raised) ②Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)
humble and honorific expressions ②honorific
ōshinbun ②major newspaper
external character ②kanji not included in the jōyō or jinmeiyō lists ③foreign letters (esp. of a Western language)