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    In modern Japanese, ateji (当て字, 宛字 or あてじ, pronounced [ate(d)ʑi]; "assigned characters") principally refers to kanji used to phonetically represent native...
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  • Ateji PX is an object-oriented programming language extension for Java. It is intended to facilliate parallel computing on multi-core processors, GPU...
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  • read about 1600 characters Tests special or unusual kanji readings Tests ateji (当て字), phonetic readings of characters Tests knowledge of synonyms and antonyms...
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    Kanji (section Ateji)
    Broadly speaking, jukujikun can be considered a form of ateji, though in narrow usage, "ateji" refers specifically to using characters for sound and not...
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  • ranked 18th, while JRuby, its JVM implementation is not listed separately. Ateji PX, an extension of Java for easy parallel programming on multicore, GPU...
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  • in the Meiji era usually have ateji, or kanji characters used solely to represent pronunciation. However, the use of ateji today has become far less common...
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    syllables in the loanword. These spellings are called ateji: for example, 亜米利加 (Amerika) was the ateji spelling of 'America', now rendered as アメリカ. As opposed...
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  • older terms written in Chinese characters (kanji); the latter are known as ateji. Japanese has many loan words from Chinese, accounting for a sizeable fraction...
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  • transcribed in katakana, a Japanese syllabary. Older loans may be written using ateji, with Kanji used to represent their phonetic readings without necessarily...
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    reason" 彩, "coloring" 理, "truth, logic" 亜矢, "sub-(Ateji), arrow" 亜弥, "sub-(Ateji), all the more" 亜夜, "sub-(Ateji), night" 順, "order, sequence, turn" 文, "writings"...
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    Karintō (花林糖, karintō, (ateji)) is a traditional Japanese snack food. Sweet and deep-fried, it is made primarily of flour, yeast, and brown sugar. It...
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    and Karate communities. "Oss" can be written in kanji as 押忍 but these are ateji applied after the term became common. 大森敏範 (2016). 押忍とは何か?. Sangokan. ISBN 978-4883206902...
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  • Japanese feminine given name. It may be written in hiragana or with various ateji. People with this name include: Kahoru Furuya (1908-2022), Japanese supercentenarian...
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    commonly written in hiragana, かわいい, but the ateji, 可愛い, is also frequently used. The romanized kanji in the ateji literally translates to "able to love/be...
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  • katakana, ばか in hiragana, or 馬鹿 (lit. "horse deer") in ateji phonetic kanji transcription; earlier ateji renderings included 莫迦, 母嫁, 馬嫁, or 破家. The first written...
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  • Muda (無駄, on'yomi reading, ateji) is a Japanese word meaning "futility", "uselessness", or "wastefulness", and is a key concept in lean process thinking...
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    Computer cluster Beowulf cluster Grid computer Hardware acceleration APIs Ateji PX Boost Chapel HPX Charm++ Cilk Coarray Fortran CUDA Dryad C++ AMP Global...
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    took heavy inspiration from the kabukimono (歌舞伎者). The kanji used are ateji, used for their pronunciation, and not their inherent meaning. Kabukimono...
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  • to Avex, the band started to use ateji to promote their singles. In every promotional video, the band uses the ateji character for their Avex Trax sub-label...
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    instead (especially using GPUs), without requiring concurrency or threads (Ateji PX, CUDA). A few interpreted programming languages have implementations...
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    for sweets in general. The characters 金平糖 (lit. "golden flat sugar") are ateji selected mostly for their phonetic value and can also be written 金米糖 or...
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  • United States is usually referred to as アメリカ (Amerika), rather than in its ateji kanji spelling of 亜米利加 (Amerika). Katakana are also used for onomatopoeia...
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    the back. The origin and naming of kokeshi is unclear, with historical ateji spellings including 小芥子, 木牌子, 木形子, and 木芥子. The hiragana spelling こけし was...
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    unrelated to the usual pronunciations of the constituent kanji. Conversely, ateji refers to the employment of kanji that appear solely to represent the sound...
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    in Kyūshū.[citation needed] A phenomenon similar to man'yōgana, called ateji (当て字), still occurs, where words (including loanwords) are spelled out using...
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    sometimes translated as 'the art of singing and dancing'. These are, however, ateji characters which do not reflect actual etymology, being used for pronunciation...
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  • and the proprietary product implementing the extensions were developed by Ateji which went out of business in September 2011. OptimJ aims at providing a...
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    his poetic pen name (雅号, gagō) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門. Keene was born in 1922 in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New...
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    this tree is saru suberi (猿滑、百日紅, literally "monkey slip", latter spelling ateji), which refers to the smooth, slippery bark. Flowers are as large as those...
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    Japanese romanization. The characters used to write Mount Fuji were used as ateji. In 1935, Fuji Electric spun off the telephone department as Fuji Tsushinki...
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