| 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 crest representing a Shinto shrine | 社紋 |
| gen. | n cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death | 丑の刻参り |
| gen. | n cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death | 丑の時参り |
| astr. | family crest representing the seven luminaries | 七つ星 (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) |
| gen. | n festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress | 内裏びな |
| gen. | festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress | 内裏様 |
| abbr. | festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress | 内裏 news2 nf46 |
| gen. | n festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress | 内裏雛 |
| gen. | n hand gesture similar to the peace sign, representing victory or happiness | Ｖサイン |
| gen. | n iteration mark used to represent repetition of the previous kanji | 二の字点 (to be read using its kun-yomi) |
| gen. | kabuki accessory representing a cloud | 雲気 |
| gen. | n kanji representing verb or adjective | 虚字 |
| 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 lines representing the flow of a fluid | 流線 (ryūsen) |
| gen. | noh mask representing a male ghost | 疲男 |
| gen. | noh mask representing a male ghost | 痩せ男 |
| gen. | n ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth | 島台 |
| gen. | n painting representing Hell | 地獄絵 |
| gen. | n painting representing Hell | 地獄変相 |
| gen. | n painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters | 葦手 (Heian period) |
| gen. | n papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting | 立て版古 |
| gen. | n papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting | 立版古 |
| 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 |
| gen. | n vs representing others in a conference | 代議 news1 nf04 |
| 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 uk syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma | 阿うん |
| gen. | n uk syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma | 阿呍 |
| gen. | n uk syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma | 阿吽 |
| gen. | n adj-no type of character representing pictures | 象形 |
| gen. | unofficial имен. м.р.ot character representing the city of Funabashi, Chiba | ふなっしー (unclass) |
| 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 |