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  2. Nippo Jisho - Wikipedia

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    The Nippo Jisho (日葡辞書, literally the "Japanese–Portuguese Dictionary") or Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam (Vocabulário da Língua do Japão in modern Portuguese; "Vocabulary of the Language of Japan" in English) is a Japanese-to-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1603.

  3. José - Wikipedia

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    In Netherlandic Dutch, however, José is a feminine given name and is pronounced ⓘ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name Josina and even a Dutch hypocorism [1] of the name Johanna. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and ...

  4. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    Japanese names may be written in hiragana or katakana, the Japanese language syllabaries for words of Japanese or foreign origin, respectively. As such, names written in hiragana or katakana are phonetic rendering and lack meanings that are expressed by names written in the logographic kanji.

  5. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on Portuguese orthography.It was developed c. 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō. [2] [citation needed] Jesuit priests used the system in a series of printed Catholic books so that missionaries could preach and teach their converts without learning to read Japanese orthography.

  6. Jose - Wikipedia

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    Related names Joseph, Josef, Yoseph, Yosef, Yase, Yose, Jouse, Yúsuf, Yousef, Josie Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name Yose , which is etymologically linked to Yosef or Joseph .

  7. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  8. How a man landed interviews after dropping one letter from ...

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    Here's what happened when one man on a job hunt decided to Anglicize his name on his resume -- from José to Joe. José told BuzzFeed that when he dropped the "s" from his name, "That's when all ...

  9. List of English words of Japanese origin - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese, the word commonly refers to alcoholic drinks in general sashimi 刺身, a Japanese delicacy primarily consisting of the freshest raw seafoods thinly sliced and served with only a dipping sauce and wasabi. satsuma (from 薩摩 Satsuma, an ancient province of Japan), a type of mandarin orange (mikan) native to Japan shabu shabu