Fictional character - Kyoji

Japanese: 虚字 - きょじ

〘noun〙 One of the major parts of speech in classical Chinese grammar. In the past, characters that correspond to nouns in modern grammar were called real characters, and all others were called empty characters, but nowadays, adverbs, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, etc. are usually called auxiliary characters to distinguish them, and empty characters are characters that correspond to verbs and adjectives, such as go (go), go (go), sorrow (sorrow), joy (joy), high (high), low (low). Empty words. Empty phrases. (Revised and expanded Japanese English Lin Shusei (1886))

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Japanese:

〘名〙中国古典語法における品詞の大別の一つ。古くは現代文法の名詞にあたる字を実字といい、それ以外をすべて虚字と呼んだこともあったが、現在では通常、副詞、接続詞、助動詞、前置詞などを助字と呼んで区別し、虚字は行・去・憂・喜・高・低など、動詞、形容詞にあたる字をいう。虚語。虚辞。〔改正増補和英語林集成（1886）〕

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