Japanese

Noun

単語 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 單語, hiragana たんご, romaji tango)

1. a word, a shortest part that means something in a sentence.

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3