字送り

Noun

 * 1) a
 * 2)  the distance between the two center points of the advance widths of two successive monospace CJK characters, sometimes mistranslated as "" by Western software localizers
 * 1)  the distance between the two center points of the advance widths of two successive monospace CJK characters, sometimes mistranslated as "" by Western software localizers

Usage notes

 * is a unique concept to East Asian typography, with no Western equivalent. This is due to how CJK characters are mostly monospace, meaning that this measurement is uniform; meanwhile in Western typography, characters have proportional width, which would render an equivalent measurement useless. Some software localizers use this term as a translation of, while others keep them separate and use the transcription instead.  corresponds better to . Mathematically speaking,  =  + font size.  can be measured in  or.