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  2. Taito (kanji) - Wikipedia

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    Variant 1: daito or otodo Variant 2: taito Taito, daito, or otodo (𱁬/) is a kokuji (kanji character invented in Japan) written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically complex CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

  3. 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. Most Sino-Japanese words were borrowed in the 5th–9th centuries AD, from Early Middle Chinese into Old Japanese. Some grammatical ...

  4. Kintama - Wikipedia

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    Tanuki sheltering from rain using its stretched scrotum, as depicted in Ehon Hyaku Monogatari. Use of the term kintama has been traced back to the Edo Period. [1] According to folklore, the tanuki has magical shapeshifting abilities, including their oversized scrotums (as depicted in art), which the animals could use in multiple ways.

  5. Irasutoya - Wikipedia

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    A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...

  6. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed ( 勺 , 銑 , 脹 , 錘 , 匁 ).

  7. 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.

  8. List of English words of Japanese origin - Wikipedia

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    鯛焼き, a Japanese fish-shaped cake, commonly filled with red bean paste that is made from sweetened adzuki beans tamari 溜まり or たまり, liquid obtained by pressing soybeans tempura てんぷら or 天麩羅, classic Japanese deep fried batter-dipped seafood and vegetables. The word may be from Portuguese tempêro/seasoning. [25 ...

  9. Clip art - Wikipedia

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    Examples of computer clip art, from Openclipart. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.