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Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by bigbigbiga on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:08PM (#31295804)
No, they are called Hafu. Half Japanese.
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Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by stjohnswarts on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:29PM (#31296652)
Do you know if that is a japanese adoption of "half" or is it based on pure Japanese etymology and just a coincidence it's sounds similar?
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Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by filoleg on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:56PM (#31296889)
That one is a transliteration/adoption, as it is literally just ハ-フ (pronounced as "ha-fu"). The actual word for a half (like in "half a minute") would be 半 (pronounced as "han")
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Re:Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021 by EE84M3i on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:54PM (#31296867)
It's written using katakana, which denotes that it's a loanword.
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