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...

"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...

(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...

– 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

dance platforms, on which office ladies dressed in "bodycon" (abbr. (wasei-eigo): "body conscious" (ボディコン, bodikon, "sexually flattering clothing")) clubwear...

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...

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...

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)...