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Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra palace, known for its Saracenic or arabesque architecture.
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A person interested in Asia or its culture.
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(linguistics) The use of kanji chosen primarily for their phonetic (narrow sense) or semantic (broad sense) value to represent foreign or native Japanese words, or the kanji so used.
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A system of American folk religion and magic associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
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An obsession with the Chinese culture, language, or people.
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An expert in Dunhuangology.
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(sometimes derogatory) Ungrammatical, unorthographical or nonsensical English, especially that which is found in East Asia, notably in Japan.
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(Japanese typography) Kana printed next to or above a kanji or other character to indicate the pronunciation.
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A foreign, typically non-Sinitic loanword into Japanese.
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(linguistics) Abbreviation of Gothic. [An extinct Germanic language, once spoken by the Goths.]
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(colloquialism, in Japan) A mixed-race person in Japan of East-Asian descent
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A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
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Of or pertaining to James Curtis Hepburn or his system of romanization of the Japanese language.
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(uncountable, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) The Japanese language.
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(archaic) A person from Japan.
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(countable) A person living in or coming from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.
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In a Japanese manner; in a way characteristic of Japan.
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That which is Japanese, generally; the manners, culture, ornamentation etc. of Japan.
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Somewhat Japanese; affecting a Japanese style.
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In a Japanesque manner.
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Something resembling the Japanese in style or manners.
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Alternative form of Japanesey [Somewhat Japanese; affecting a Japanese style.]
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English terms or names that have been localized for Japanese use.
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(anime, dated) Synonym of anime; Japanese animated cartoons.
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Resembling or characteristic of the Japanese or their culture or manners.
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A custom peculiar to Japan.
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(obsolete) A Japanese person.
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A place where japanning is carried out.
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Alternative form of Japanish [Resembling or characteristic of the Japanese or their culture or manners.]
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(more specifically) A belief in the superiority of Japanese business practices and management style.
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A person who loves the country, culture, or people of Japan.
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A strong interest in the country, culture, or people of Japan.
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Fond of Japan or related to Japanophilia.
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Expressing or relating to Japanophobia.
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The state or quality of being japish.
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(informal) A confused blend of Japanese and English; Engrish.
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(US, obsolete) the upper class
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Japanese-influenced English, especially when nonstandard or ungrammatical.
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(archaeology) Relating to an early Neolithic culture in Japan
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Abbreviation of Japanese. [(countable) A person living in or coming from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.]
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(linguistics) A Japanese word whose kanji spelling conveys the meaning based on the individual characters, but whose reading is not directly related to the spelling.
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A reading of a kanji that is not derived from the kanji's original pronunciation borrowed from Chinese
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A neighborhood/community that is predominantly Japanese, within a city that is not.
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(monetary, historical) Relating to denominations belonging to a money of account formerly in extensive mercantile use in North Germany.
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Alternative spelling of mallgoth [(derogatory) A trendy or ingenuine goth.]
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The modern stage of the Japanese language, usually dated from around 1600.
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(rare) Synonym of Engrish
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(rare, common in the Philippines, Japanism) Synonym of Japanese: the Japanese language.
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A genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity and how Japan and the Japanese should be understood.
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A Japanese emigrant or a descendant thereof who is not a citizen of Japan. Commonly used in Japan to refer to people of Japanese ancestry that are living abroad as citizens of other countries.
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(dated) A Japanese person.
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Of or relating to Nippon (i.e. Japan); Japanese.
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(linguistics) A Japanese word or phrase used in English.
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One who loves Japan or Japanese culture.
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Advocacy of Japanese thought or culture.
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(very rare) Expressing or relating to Nipponophilia.
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(very rare) Expressing or relating to Nipponophobia.
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a person born outside of Japan of parents who were born in Japan
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In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
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Alternative form of Polari [A cant used in the London fishmarkets, in the British theatre, and by the homosexual community in Britain, attested since at least the 19th century and popularised in the 1950s and 1960s by the camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.]
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(linguistics) In the Japanese language, a phenomenon which governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. An example is 時々 (ときどき, tokidoki), where the second, iterative element "-toki" becomes "-doki" and 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami) where the word 紙 (かみ, kami; paper) becomes "gami".
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Misconstruction of romaji [A representation of Japanese in Latin script.]
adj
Alternative spelling of Sino-Xenic [(linguistics) Related to pronunciations for reading Chinese in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, originating in medieval times and the source of large-scale borrowings of Chinese words into Japonic, Koreanic and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese (excluding Sinitic topolects).]
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Japanese coinages using Chinese roots, not originally in use in Chinese-speaking countries nor by Chinese native speakers, but only by speakers of Japanese.
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An informal language blending elements of English and Yiddish.
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