one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" 固有名詞を書くあるいは印刷する場合に先頭文字として使われ、しばしば強調に用いられる大文字のアルファベットの1つ。
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