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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. Miho - Wikipedia

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    Miho Hamada (濱田 美穂), Japanese table tennis player; Miho Hatori (羽鳥 美保, born 1970), Japanese singer and songwriter; Miho Hazama (挾間 美帆, born 1986), Japanese composer and jazz musician; Miho Iwata (born 1962), Japanese performance artist, scenographer and choreographer; Miho Kaneda (金田 美保), former Japanese football ...

  6. Shodan (rank) - Wikipedia

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    Shodan (初段), literally meaning "beginning degree," is the lowest black belt rank in Japanese martial arts [1] and the game of Go. The 2nd dan is higher than Shodan, but the 1st dan is called Shodan traditionally and not "Ichidan". This is because the character 初 (sho, alternative pronunciation: hatsu) also means first, new or beginning in ...

  7. 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.

  8. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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    Ho-musubi – Another name ... – A term broadly meaning spirit or deity, but has several separate meanings: deities mentioned in Japanese mythologies and local ...

  9. 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