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  2. Chagrin Falls (waterfall) - Wikipedia

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    The Chagrin Falls originally got their name from a French trader named François Seguin, who traded with Native Americans in the early 1700s. The river later adopted the name "Chagrin". [1] At one point, the Chagrin Falls were the industrial center of Northeast Ohio and powered nine different mills at their peak. [1]

  3. List of waterfalls in Japan - Wikipedia

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    According to the Japanese government, there are 517 named waterfalls in Japan. Many of these waterfalls are located in remote mountain locations, but with an increase in hiking and tourism in recent years, the number of visitors has greatly increased, placing significant pressure on the surrounding environment.

  4. List of kigo - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of kigo, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular season in Japanese poetry.They provide an economy of expression that is especially valuable in the very short haiku, as well as the longer linked-verse forms renku and renga, to indicate the season referenced in the poem or stanza.

  5. Chagrin - Wikipedia

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    Chagrin may refer to: ... Chagrin Falls, Ohio This page was last edited on 7 November 2024, at 13:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  6. Sino-Japanese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango (Japanese: 漢語, pronounced, "Han words"), is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese. Some grammatical structures and sentence patterns can also be identified as Sino-Japanese.

  7. Japanese abbreviated and contracted words - Wikipedia

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    Japanese long vowels count as two morae, and may disappear (the same can be said for the sokuon, or small tsu っ); Harry Potter, originally Harī Pottā (ハリーポッター), is contracted to Haripota (ハリポタ), or otherwise be altered; actress Kyoko Fukada, Fukada Kyōko (深田恭子), becomes Fukakyon (ふかきょん).

  8. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese introduced Nippon and Dai Nippon into Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation (1942–1945) but the native Jepang remains more common. In Korean, Japan is called Ilbon ( Hangeul : 일본 , Hanja : 日本 ), which is the Korean pronunciation of the Sino-Korean name, and in Sino-Vietnamese , Japan is called Nhật Bản (also ...

  9. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...