Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac...
by a_t48 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:40PM
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Huh, you've just caused me to reexamine the word gaijin. gai (外) = outside, jin(人) = person\nationality. gaijin(外字) is outside + character. Neat!
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac...
by silluk on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:30PM
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Similarly, the word "loanword" (used to describe words borrowed from other languages) is gairaigo 外来語 which is literally 外来 (gairai) "foreign" + 語 (go) "word/language". Japanese is filled with words where you can often figure out the meaning purely from the characters used!