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")...
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or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms. These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms). Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"bedroom suburb" (US). In Japan, a commuter town may be referred to by the wasei-eigo coinage "bed town" (ベッドタウン, beddotaun). The term "exurb" was used from...
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(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...
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– 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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abbreviated either as S or Esu (エス), is an early twentieth-century Japanese wasei-eigo term used to refer to romantic friendships between girls. The term is...
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bell (ポケットベル, poketto beru) or pokeberu (ポケベル), which is an example of wasei-eigo. Pagers operate as part of a paging system which includes one or more...
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today. Classical compounds in English and other Indo-European languages Wasei-eigo Vietnamese does not use the term cộng hoà quốc 共和國 for republic, but rather...
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languages – see classical compound.[citation needed] In the past few decades, wasei-eigo ("made-in-Japan English") has become a prominent phenomenon. Words such...
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Ero guro (category Wasei-eigo)
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...
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VTuber (category Wasei-eigo)
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...
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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...
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referred as no3b, a stylized version of the group's name, which is a wasei-eigo term for sleeveless clothes. The trio debuted officially under the name...
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still being disputed among various media platforms. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms Boomerang Generation Dead-end job Education in Japan Herbivore men...
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Mechatronics (category Wasei-eigo)
Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the integration of mechanical engineering...
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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...
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Omurice (category Wasei-eigo)
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...
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Shotacon (category Wasei-eigo)
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...
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Visual novel (category Wasei-eigo)
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...
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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)...
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dance platforms, on which office ladies dressed in "bodycon" (abbr. (wasei-eigo): "body conscious" (ボディコン, bodikon, "sexually flattering clothing")) clubwear...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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