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  2. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  3. Category:Japanese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese vocabulary" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  4. 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 ).

  5. Category:Japanese words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 387 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  6. Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese

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    Mary lives with a host family and enjoys traveling in Japan. She is frequently illustrated in the practice exercises doing any activity the questions require. Her voice actor in the Audio files is Migo Nagahori. Takeshi Kimura (木村たけし) is a 4th-year Japanese student at Sakura University, who later graduates and gets a job at a travel ...

  7. Kyōiku kanji - Wikipedia

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    The table is developed and maintained by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT). Although the list is designed for Japanese students, it can also be used as a sequence of learning characters by non-native speakers as a means of focusing on the most commonly used kanji. Kyōiku kanji are a subset (1,026) of the 2,136 characters of jōyō ...

  8. Loanwords in Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo (外来語, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡaiɾaiɡo]) is Japanese for "loan word", and indicates a transcription into Japanese.In particular, the word usually refers to a Japanese word of foreign origin that was not borrowed in ancient times from Old or Middle Chinese (especially Literary Chinese), but in modern times, primarily from English, Portuguese, Dutch, and modern Chinese ...

  9. Wasei-kango - Wikipedia

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    Wasei-kango (Japanese: 和製漢語, "Japanese-made Chinese words") are those words in the Japanese language composed of Chinese morphemes but invented in Japan rather than borrowed from China. Such terms are generally written using kanji and read according to the on'yomi pronunciations of the characters.