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    number 1010 (Senjū) and the name of the theater's location (Senju) are homonyms in Japanese. Adachi Historical Museum: Adachi Historical Museum, located...
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  • Do It Yourself!! (category TV Tokyo original programming)
    often seen with bandages on her body. Her name in Japanese order is a homonym of the "yourself" in "do it yourself". Miku Suride (須理出 未来, Suride Miku)...
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    to his birthday (October 04, or 1004; Korean: 천사; RR: cheonsa) being a homonym in Korean for angel [ko], alongside his "angelic appearance". Jeonghan...
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  • include puns on the Japanese word for frog, kaeru (かえる), which has many homonyms. According to British newspaper The Independent, the popularity of Keroppi...
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    pronunciation fuku is more common instead of the modern fugu. The former is also a homonym for good fortune whereas the latter is one for disabled. The Tsukiji fish...
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    “2” High School at Gyeongseong, while the “9” (in Korean, “ku”) is a homonym with the first syllable of their teacher’s name. Yoo Lizzy (1945–2013)...
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    originally meant 'the first horse day of the fifth month'. However, go is a homonym for five (五) in Japanese, so during the Nara period the meaning shifted...
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  • joys and sorrows as a married couple, others suggest that san-san is a homonym for "birth after birth," suggesting fertility symbolism. Still others suggest...
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  • established, which of those will be considered homonyms or synonyms, and which one of a set of synonyms or homonyms will be considered accepted (generally the...
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    "infinity" (無限, mugen) and "fantasy" (夢幻, mugen). These two words are homonyms. Amuse Official Page Official website of Porno Graffitti (in Japanese)...
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    reading of 4 (shi) suggests death, while 9 (ku) can also be read as a homonym for suffering or torture. Thus, a comb, or kushi is a carefully avoided...
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  • Akazukin Chacha (category TV Tokyo original programming)
    magician. Chacha is clumsy in casting her spells, frequently mistaking homonyms, such as summoning spiders (kumo (蜘蛛) in Japanese) instead of a cloud (also...
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    with an optimism that we've lost today". Taking inspiration from the homonym of the French for "stage" (scène) and the river Seine, the artistic portion...
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  • 1 おっさん n. a Buddhism priest. Contraction of "oshoo-san". Note that the homonym "ossan" meaning "uncle" or "old man" differs in accent. obowaru 3 覚わる 5v...
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  • Oninaki is a 2019 action role-playing game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix for PlayStation 4, Windows and Nintendo Switch...
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    ("mousetrap") is derived from mus ("mouse") and decipula ("trap"), while the homonym word muscipula ("flytrap") is derived from musca ("fly") and decipula....
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  • As confirmed on the character's official Facebook page, her name is a homonym for one of the readings for the Japanese word for 'ten': too (とお). Her...
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    series, such as Harunobu's Fūryū Goshiki-zumi. The title also puns on a homonym of -zumi meaning "to live" or "to dwell"; the title can thus read "Five...
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  • rejected. Thereupon, Kato suggested another ring name Masato (魔裟斗), "the homonym term of Masato (雅人)". He accepted that name but he did not like it because...
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  • Persona 5 (category Video games set in Tokyo)
    The name of Joker's high school, "Shujin", was chosen because it was a homonym of Shūjin (囚人), the Japanese word for "prisoner". Following a trend from...
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  • initials of the founder, Inabata Katsutaro (Japanese name order), as well as homonyms for “love” (ai) and “respect” (Kei) in Japanese. Founder Inabata Katsutaro...
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    to his dog, where the Korean words for "apple" and "apology" (사과) are homonyms. Yoon later denied the alleged symbolism of the photo. Yoon again apologized...
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    Hence, the Chinese character for Jun in Lee's name was changed to the homonym 振 instead, to avoid naming taboo in Chinese tradition.[citation needed]...
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    Retrieved 17 May 2016. Whitney, Eleanor Noss (1964), A Mah Jong Handbook, Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, pp. 17, 63, ISBN 0-8048-3278-1 Mahjong Museum (Japanese)...
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    now, the fifth month when the rain falls." However, there are several homonyms in the line, such that it could be taken as a double entendre. An alternate...
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  • Japanese wordplay used in waka poetry, wherein some words represent two homonyms. The presence of multiple meanings within these words allowed poets to...
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  • Takuma Nakahira (category Photographers from Tokyo)
    Prichard further reads Nakahira's 1974 installation Overflow (Hanran, a homonym for "revolt"), which was produced as Nakahira was assembling Why and Illustrated...
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  • coined word that means Fighting Dragon Gate. The word was derived from the homonym Tōryūmon (登龍門) that literally means climbing up the dragon gate (or less...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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  • prefecture and its capital are homonyms, the club can be said to represent both. Japan Ehime F.C., F.C. Gifu, Tochigi S.C., F.C. Tokyo Province Canada Nova Scotia...
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