On (Japanese prosody) On (Japanese prosody) The term On (rarely "Onji") refers to counting phonetic sounds in Japanese poetry. In the Japanese language, the word ""on"" (音) means "sound". It is used to mean the phonetic units counted in haiku, tanka, and other such poetic forms. Known as "morae" to English-speaking linguists, the modern Japanese term for the linguistic concept is either "haku" () or "mōra" (). Ji (字) is Japanese for "symbol" or "character". The concatenation of the two words ""on"" and ""ji"" into ""onji"" (音字) was used by Meiji era grammarians to mean "phonic character" and was translated into English by
Haiku Depot comments. It also helped with evaluating the stability of packages and assigning them to respective repositories. A small group of developers was formed to tackle the task of designing and implementing the web application.<ref name=https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/bonefish/2013-09-28_package_management_goes_live Haiku Depot Haiku Depot is the native package manager for the Haiku operating system which was integrated into Haiku after its "R1A4" release. Most applications on Haiku now run from their packages but are virtualised as virtual directories on the Be file system. Haiku Depot is the GUI Package Manager for Haiku. It can be compared with Ubuntu Software Center, or similar software repositories. It