| Subject | English | Japanese |
| law | authority to represent | 代理権 (だいりけん) |
| law | capacity to represent | 代理権 (だいりけん) |
| gen. | n company president, with responsibility to represent the company in its dealings with the outside world | 代表取締社長 |
| gen. | n iteration mark used to represent repetition of the previous kanji | 二の字点 (to be read using its kun-yomi) |
| gen. | n obsc prior to the advent of kana kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their kun-yomi, regardless of meaning | 訓仮名 |
| gen. | n obsc prior to the advent of kana kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their on-yomi, regardless of meaning | 音仮名 |
| gen. | n lines drawn to represent motion | スピード線 |
| gen. | n part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the meaning | 意符 (as opposed to the pronunciation) |
| gen. | part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation | 音符 news2 nf42 spec2 (as opposed to the meaning, おんぷ) |
| gen. | represent by signs | 記号で表す |
| law | right to represent | 代理権 (だいりけん) |
| gen. | n right to represent | 代表権 (e.g. a company, だいひょうけん) |
| gen. | n yoji unscrupulous sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable social welfare organization | 福祉商法 |
| manga. | n signs, symbols and characters used in manga to represent actions, emotions, etc. | 漫符 |
| gen. | n someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world | 代表取締役 (だいひょうとりしまりやく) |
| gen. | n using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play | 百眼 (from the middle of the Edo period) |
| gen. | n using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words | 借音 (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) |
| gen. | n using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words | 借訓 (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) |
| gen. | words which represent attributes | 属性を表す語 |
| gen. | words which represent substance | 実体を表す語 |