What is the name given to a word or sentence which reads the same forwards and backwards?
Kaibun kana ゃ,ゅ and ょ are usually allowed to be interpreted as big kana や, ゆ and よ. In classics, diacritic marks are often ignored. Rather than saying "read the same forwards and backwards", because Japanese is traditionally written vertically, Japanese people describe the word as being the same when read from the top ("ue kara yomu") as when read from the bottom ("shita kara yomu"). Kaibun Kaibun (回文; literally "circle sentence") is a Japanese equivalent of the palindrome, or in other words, a sentence that reads the same from the beginning to the end or from the end to the
Sentence word to fill in form data (e.g. "Name?", "Age?"). A sentence word involves invisible covert syntax and visible overt syntax. The invisible section or "covert" is the syntax that is removed in order to form a one word sentence. The visible section or "overt" is the syntax that still remains in a sentence word. Within sentence word syntax there are 4 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), and imperative (a command). The words in bold above demonstrate that in the overt syntax structures, there are words that can be omitted in order