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  2. Japanese wordplay - Wikipedia

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    Japanese wordplay. Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect, functioning somewhat like a cross between a pun and a spoonerism. Double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment (such as in kakekotoba) [1] due to the language's large number of homographs (different ...

  3. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters, Japanese kana, Vietnamese chữ Nôm and Korean hangul can be written horizontally or vertically. There are some small differences in orthography. In horizontal writing it is more common to use Arabic numerals, whereas Chinese numerals are more common in vertical text.

  4. Leet - Wikipedia

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    Leet. Leet (or " 1337 "), also known as eleet or leetspeak, or simply hacker speech, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance.

  5. Google Japanese Input - Wikipedia

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    Google Japanese Input (Google 日本語入力, Gūguru Nihongo Nyūryoku) is an input method published by Google for the entry of Japanese text on a computer. Since its dictionaries are generated automatically from the Internet, it supports typing of personal names, Internet slang, neologisms and related terms. Google Japanese Input can be used ...

  6. Mojibake - Wikipedia

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    Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake], "character transformation") is the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. [ 1 ] The result is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, do not from a different writing system.

  7. Category:Japanese masculine given names - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 12 September 2024, at 02:05 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.

  8. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    wakiten (脇点, "side dot") kurogoma (黒ゴマ, "sesame dot") shirogoma (白ゴマ, "white sesame dot") Adding these dots to the sides of characters (right side in vertical writing, above in horizontal writing) emphasizes the character in question. It is the Japanese equivalent of the use of italics for emphasis in English. ※. 2228.

  9. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.