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  2. Nanori - Wikipedia

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    Nanori (Japanese: 名乗り, "to say or give one's own name") are the often non-standard kanji character readings (pronunciations) found almost exclusively in Japanese names. In the Japanese language, many Japanese names are constructed from common characters with standard pronunciations. However, names may also contain rare characters which ...

  3. Dayrit - Wikipedia

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    Dayrit is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amando G. Dayrit (1912–1944), Filipino journalist; Conrado Dayrit (1919–2007), Filipino scientist; Fabian Dayrit, Filipino chemist; Francisco Dayrit Sr. (1907–1983), Filipino fencer; Nicolasa Dayrit Panlilio (1874–1945)

  4. Yamato - Wikipedia

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    Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province; Yamato Kingship, the government of the Yamato period; Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period; Yamato-damashii, the "Japanese spirit", or Yamato-gokoro, the "Japanese heart/mind" Yamato nadeshiko, the ideology of the perfect Japanese woman

  5. Hanakotoba - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.

  6. Kanji - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, after centuries of development, there is a notable number of kanji used in modern Japanese which have different meaning from hanzi used in modern Chinese. Such differences are the result of: the use of characters created in Japan, characters that have been given different meanings in Japanese, and

  7. 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 ...

  8. Date (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Date clan, a lineage of daimyōs who controlled northern Japan in the late 16th century and into the Edo period. Date Tanemune (伊達 稙宗, 1488–1565), Japanese samurai ...

  9. Kira kira name - Wikipedia

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    Kira kira name (キラキラネーム, kira kira nēmu, lit. ' sparkling name ') is a term for a modern Japanese given name that has an atypical pronunciation or meaning. Common characteristics of these names include unorthodox readings for kanji, pop culture references, or the use of foreign words.