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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 (#11972220)
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!

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