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  2. Line breaking rules in East Asian languages - Wikipedia

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    Move punctuation character to the end of the previous line. Oidashi (Wrap to next) Send characters not permitted at the end of a line to the next line, increase tracking to pad out first line. Another use is to wrap a character from the first line with the goal of preventing a character that shouldn't start a line from coming first on the next ...

  3. History of meat consumption in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The history of meat consumption in Japan is relatively short. Meat products, referring to non-maritime animals, were historically not developed as part of Japanese cuisine due to the influence of Buddhist vegetarianism, political idealism, and scarcity. [1] As a result, Japan has the shortest history of eating meat compared to other Asian ...

  4. Character sheet - Wikipedia

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    A character sheet from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. A character sheet is a record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session. Character sheets can be found in use in both traditional and live-action role-playing games.

  5. History of Japanese cuisine - Wikipedia

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    [26] [27] Meat eating was forbidden by Buddhism in Japan. [28] Meat eating was an abhorred western practice, according to one Samurai family's daughter who never ate meat. [29] [30] Shintoism and Buddhism both contributed to the vegetarian diet of medieval Japanese while 0.1 ounces of meat was the daily amount consumed by the average Japanese ...

  6. Ofuda - Wikipedia

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    Omamori, another kind of Japanese talisman, shares the same origin as and may be considered as a smaller and portable version of ofuda. A specific type of ofuda is a talisman issued by a Shinto shrine on which is written the name of the shrine or its enshrined kami and stamped with the shrine's seal .

  7. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    The "New" column attempts to reflect the official glyph shapes as closely as possible. This requires using the characters 𠮟, 塡, 剝, 頰 which are outside of Japan's basic character set, JIS X 0208 (one of them is also outside the Unicode BMP). In practice, these characters are usually replaced by the characters 叱, 填, 剥, 頬, which ...

  8. Help:Japanese - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Japanese word for "to do" (する suru) is written with two hiragana: す (su) + る (ru). Katakana are generally used to write loanwords , foreign names and onomatopoeia . For example, retasu was borrowed from the English "lettuce", and is written with three katakana: レ ( re ) + タ ( ta ) + ス ( su ).

  9. Poi (food) - Wikipedia

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    The flavor changes distinctly once the poi has been made; fresh poi is sweet and edible; each day thereafter, the poi loses sweetness and turns sour due to a natural fermentation that involves Lactobacillus bacteria, yeasts, and Geotrichum fungi. [9] Therefore, some people find fermented poi more palatable if it is mixed with milk or sugar or both.