Wasei-eigo (和製英語, meaning "Japanese-made English", from "wasei" (Japanese made) and "eigo" (English), in other words, "English words coined in Japan")...

or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms. These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms). Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese...

characters in Japanese. For a list of terms, see the List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms. Japanese has a long history of borrowing from foreign languages...

Janglish are more specific to Japanese Engrish. The related Japanese term wasei-eigo (和製英語: 'Japanese-made English') refers to pseudo-anglicisms that have...

Yuri (Japanese: 百合, lit. "lily"), also known by the wasei-eigo construction girls' love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a genre of Japanese media focusing on...

(レディースコミック) The first term used to describe this category of manga. It is a wasei-eigo construction where "ladies" is understood as a synonym for "women", thus...

targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. or, in...

English and Japanese also have diverse false friends, many of them being wasei-eigo and gairaigo words. The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic...

– a music venue featuring live music. The term is a Japanese coinage (wasei eigo) and is mainly used in East Asia. It most frequently refers to smaller...

English and other Indo-European languages Wasei-eigo For a list of words relating to Wasei-kango, see the Wasei kango category of words in Wiktionary, the...

Japanese. The reverse of this list can be found at List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms. anime アニメ listen, hand-drawn and computer animation originating...

others are unique to Japan or of Japanese origin, and form a kind of wasei eigo (Japanese-coined English). This is a list of Latin alphabet letter combinations...

still being disputed among various media platforms. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms Boomerang Generation Dead-end job Education in Japan Herbivore men...

languages – see classical compound.[citation needed] In the past few decades, wasei-eigo ("made-in-Japan English") has become a prominent phenomenon. Words such...

Zubon may refer to: Zubon, a Japanese gairaigo and wasei-eigo term meaning trousers or pants Zubon, trousers of the keikogi uniform for the Japanese martial...

Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the integration of mechanical engineering...

something that is both erotic and grotesque. The term itself is an example of wasei-eigo, a Japanese combination of English words or abbreviated words: ero from...

the Javanese lunar year, see Javanese calendar taun, a wasei-eigo term, see List of wasei-eigo Tauns River, India Tauntaun Ton (disambiguation) Town (disambiguation)...

typically coated in a golden glow. Her family name is based on the Japanese wasei-eigo term for telepathy.[citation needed] Kineshi Hairo (灰呂 杵志, Hairo Kineshi)...

A VTuber (Japanese: ブイチューバー, Hepburn: BuiChūbā) or virtual YouTuber (バーチャルユーチューバー, bācharu YūChūbā) is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar...

terms not readily understandable to a native English speaker, similar to wasei-eigo terms in the Japanese language. Many Konglish terms were invented by Koreans...

French word omelette and the English word rice, the name is an example of wasei-eigo. Stories about the origins of omurice vary. One story says that it originated...

"soapland" chosen as the winning entry in a nationwide contest. The term is a wasei-eigo term, constructed from the two English words soap and land. Soaplands...

format is more rarely referred to as novel game, a retranscription of the wasei-eigo term noberu gēmu (ノベルゲーム), which is more often used in Japanese. Visual...

of international releases; as overseas sales companies objected to the wasei-eigo name, it was sold under several names, including Sound-about in the United...

Shotacon (ショタコン, shotakon), abbreviated from Shōtarō complex (正太郎コンプレックス, shōtarō konpurekkusu), is, in Japanese contexts, the attraction to young (or...

of the main story. In Japanese culture and entertainment, media mix (wasei-eigo: メディアミックス, mediamikkusu) is a strategy to disperse content across multiple...

discretion, usually combining a pejorative with the word "game" or "soft" (a wasei-eigo abbreviation of "software") – examples include dame-soft (ダメソフト, lit. 'no-good...

Karaoke (/ˌkæriˈoʊki/; Japanese: [kaɾaoke] ; カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive...

considered part of the overall idol industry in Japan. "Gurabia" (グラビア) is a wasei-eigo term derived from "rotogravure", which is a type of intaglio printing...