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  2. Tengu - Wikipedia

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    Like the tengu, the garuda are often portrayed in a human-like form with wings and a bird's beak. The name tengu seems to be written in place of that of the garuda in a Japanese sutra called the Emmyō Jizō-kyō ( 延命地蔵経 ), but this was likely written in the Edo period , long after the tengu's image was established.

  3. List of fictional ducks in animation - Wikipedia

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    A yellow duck who is shaped like the word "Duck", similarly to how the other animals are shaped like the words they represent. He is one of the two main protagonists and is Frog's friend. Ducky Lucky: Chicken Little: Jam Handy: A Duck from the Farm. Their names are Chicken Little, Cocky Locky and Foxy Loxy.

  4. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    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). Hyphens in the kun'yomi readings separate kanji from their okurigana. The "New" column attempts to reflect the official glyph shapes as closely as possible.

  5. Gudetama - Wikipedia

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    Gudetama, stylized in all lowercase (Japanese: ぐでたま) is a fictional character created in 2013 by Amy, the nom de plume of Emi Nagashima (永嶋 瑛美, Nagashima Emi) [1] [2] for Sanrio, [4] [5] and is a perpetually tired, apathetic anthropomorphic egg yolk.

  6. 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.

  7. Kanji - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, specifying a given kanji, or spelling out a kanji word—whether the pronunciation is known or not—can be complicated, due to the fact that there is not a commonly used standard way to refer to individual kanji (one does not refer to "kanji #237"), and that a given reading does not map to a single kanji—indeed there are many ...

  8. Taito (kanji) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Japanese dragon - Wikipedia

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    Japanese words for "dragon" are written with kanji ("Chinese characters"), either simplified shinjitai 竜 or traditional kyūjitai 龍 from Chinese long 龍. These kanji can be read tatsu in native Japanese kun'yomi, [b] and ryū or ryō in Sino-Japanese on'yomi. [c] Many Japanese dragon names are loanwords from Chinese.