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  2. Ho (kana) - Wikipedia

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    ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are made in four strokes and both represent [ho].In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ホ can be written as small ㇹ to represent a final h sound after an o sound (オㇹ oh).

  3. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    From Old Japanese midu > Japanese mizu ("water; lushness, freshness, juiciness") + Old Japanese fo > Japanese ho ("ear (of grain, especially rice)"). Shikishima ( 敷島 ) is written with Chinese characters that suggest a meaning "islands that one has spread/laid out", but this name of Japan supposedly originates in the name of an area in Shiki ...

  4. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Many organizations in Japan award such titles upon a sincere study and dedication of Japanese martial arts. The below mentioned titles are awarded after observing a person's martial arts skills, their ability of teaching and understanding of martial arts and the most importantly as a role model and the perfection of one's character.

  5. Art name - Wikipedia

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    An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names hào (in Mandarin Chinese), gō (in Japanese), ho (in Korean), and tên hiệu (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by artists, poets and writers in the Sinosphere.

  6. Hoori - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese mythology, it was said that the ho (火) part of his name meant fire, but etymologically, it is a different character pronounced ho (穂), which refers to crops, particularly rice. Ori (折り, to bend) indicates a crop that is so rich, it bends under its own weight. Another name for him, Hohodemi, means many harvests.

  7. Ho - Wikipedia

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    Ho (kana), a part of the Japanese writing system; Handelsorganisation, a state-owned retail business of the former German Democratic Republic; Head office, or headquarters; HO scale, a rail transport modelling scale; Antinea Airlines, a former Algerian airline, IATA airline code HO; Juneyao Airlines, a Chinese airline, IATA airline code HO

  8. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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    ' Spirit, God, Deity, Divinity ') – A term broadly meaning spirit or deity, but has several separate meanings: deities mentioned in Japanese mythologies and local deities protecting areas, villages and families. [6] unnamed and non-anthropomorphic spirits found in natural phenomena. [6] a general sense of sacred power. [6]

  9. Honorific speech in Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Japanese uses honorific constructions to show or emphasize social rank, social intimacy or similarity in rank. The choice of pronoun used, for example, will express the social relationship between the person speaking and the person being referred to, and Japanese often avoids pronouns entirely in favor of more explicit titles or kinship terms.