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  2. Ki (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ , is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected. A dakuten may be added to the character; this transforms it into ぎ in hiragana, ギ in katakana, and gi in Hepburn romanization .

  3. Kira (given name) - Wikipedia

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    It might be a feminine form of the name Kiran, pronounced / ˈ k ɪər ə n / KEER-ən. Kiran is of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning "beam of light". In Ancient Hebrew "Keren" means both "a horn" and "a beam of light". Besides Sanskrit and Hebrew there might be other etymologies from Egyptian, where the word Ki-Ra means "like Ra", or Persian. [1]

  4. Kai (name) - Wikipedia

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    The name Kai / ˈ k aɪ / has various origins and meanings in different cultures: In Estonian, Kai is a female name derived from Katherine. In Persian, Kai, or Kay, is a male name, meaning "king". It is also the name of a mythological shah (king) in the Shahnameh. In Japanese, kai has a number of meanings, including "ocean" (海), "shell" (貝 ...

  5. Japanese slang to know: What makes the language at the ... - AOL

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    Emoji, karaoke, futon, ramen: Words we wouldn't have if it weren't for the Japanese language, which is on full display at Tokyo's summer Olympics. Japanese slang to know: What makes the language ...

  6. List of Hebrew abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    In Modern Hebrew, to modify the sounds of certain letters, as in the names George ג׳וֹרג׳ and Charlie צָ׳רלִי. When transliterating foreign words into Hebrew. For example, Rashi often uses Hebrew letters to write French translations of Biblical Hebrew, marking it with a gershayim like an abbreviation (ex. אפייצימנ״טו ...

  7. Kiai - Wikipedia

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    The term is a compound of ki (Japanese: 気), meaning "energy" or "mood" and a(u) (Japanese: 合, infinitive ai), an emphatic marker. [1] The same concept is known as kihap in many Korean martial arts, such as taekwondo and Tang Soo Do, ki being the energy and hap meaning to join, to harmonize or to amplify, based on the Korean reading of the same characters; its Hangul spelling is 기합.

  8. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew: אָממ אָממ (amm amm) שלוּק (shluk) צחצוח (tsikhtsúakh), שקשוק (shikshúk refers to "shaking teeth") Hungarian: hamm nyam-nyam, csám-csám glu-glu, glugy-glugy sika-sika Icelandic: kjams nammi namm glúgg glúgg Indonesian: krauk nyam nyam glek glek, gluk gluk glek sruk sruk Italian: gnam gnam gnam glu glu glu glu ...

  9. Maki (name) - Wikipedia

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    Maki (まき, マキ) is a very common feminine Japanese given name which can also be used as a surname.. Maki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean (the list is not exhaustive):