(correctly ಅಕ್ಷರ) the conventional sign or mark used to represent the letters of an alphabet.

not having salt; saltless.

a letter of the alphabet.

a word or part of a word uttered by a single effort of the voice; a syllable, which may either be made of a single or more alphabetical characters.

a sign or a mark representing a sound of speech; a letter.

that which is written; hand-writing.

a written message.

a word or speech uttered.

the result produced by instruction, training or study; education.

one who is free from death; an ever-living man.

any of the trinity deities - Brahma, Viṣṇu or Śiva.

the Absolute Supreme.

renown; celebrity (in good sense); fame.

the final emancipation of the soul from the cycle of birth and deaths.

water.

the apparent blue canopy over our heads; the sky.

austerity observed for religious purpose; penance.

the law of a religion or community.

the original or prime cause; the first cause.

the sacred syllable aum(pronounced as ōm).

a sword.

the plant Achyranthes aspera, of Amaranthaceae family.

the plant Solanum indicum of Solanaceae family.

its fruit; wild brinjal.

honey.

the white colour.

a measure of time; one fifth of ಕಾಷ್ಠ;

ದೊಡ್ಡ ಅಕ್ಷರ doḍḍa akṣara a capital letter, as in English; ಸಣ್ಣ ಅಕ್ಷರ saṇṇa akṣara a lower case letter, as in English; ಅಕ್ಷರನುಂಗು akṣara nuŋgu to utter words lacking distinctiveness or clarity in pronunciation of syllables; ಅಕ್ಷರ ಬಾರದವನಿಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆಯೇ ಮುಖ್ಯ akṣara bāradavanige śikṣeyē mukhya (prov.) spare not the rod to set right a stupid person.

a kind of disease.

undecaying; imperishable; not degenerating; eternal.

a charge or calumny; accusation of adultery.

(zool.) having no backbone or a vertebral column; invertebrate.

= ಅಕ್ಷರ2.

a kind of glue made from the rice flour.

= ಅಕ್ಕಿಸಱಿ.