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  2. Brent (name) - Wikipedia

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    Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent ), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somerset and Devon ).

  3. List of English words of Japanese origin - Wikipedia

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    左様なら or さようなら sayōnara the Japanese term for "goodbye" samurai 侍 or 士, Japanese knight sensei 先生, the Japanese term for "master", "teacher" or "doctor". It can be used to refer to any authority figure, such as a schoolteacher, professor, priest, or politician. senpai 先輩, the Japanese term for "upperclassman" or ...

  4. Kanji - Wikipedia

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    The significant use of Chinese characters in Japan first began to take hold around the 5th century AD and has since had a profound influence in shaping Japanese culture, language, literature, history, and records. [6] Inkstone artifacts at archaeological sites dating back to the earlier Yayoi period were also found to contain Chinese characters ...

  5. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used.

  6. Talk : List of English words of Japanese origin/Archive 1

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    The term is an acronym derived from the Japanese phrase 「ヤマなし、オチなし、意味なし」 (yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi), meaning "no climax, no punch line, no meaning." Also is a term meaning "a male/male relationship", usually with a higher maturity rating than the more-fluffy "shounen-ai"

  7. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    Japanese names may be written in hiragana or katakana, the Japanese language syllabaries for words of Japanese or foreign origin, respectively. As such, names written in hiragana or katakana are phonetic rendering and lack meanings that are expressed by names written in the logographic kanji.

  8. Glossary of Japanese words of Dutch origin - Wikipedia

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    In the process, a number of terms were adopted from Dutch into the Japanese language. At one point, some 3,000 words are thought to have been used, especially in the areas of technical and scientific vocabulary. [1] About 160 such words of Dutch origin remain in use today in standard Japanese. [1]

  9. Sino-Japanese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    There are a few Japanese words that, although they appear to have originated in borrowings from Chinese, have such a long history in the Japanese language that they are regarded as native and are thus treated as kun'yomi, e.g., 馬 uma "horse" and 梅 ume. These words are not regarded as belonging to the Sino-Japanese vocabulary.