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What do you think about this word JPN?
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>>56657602
I prefer 쪽발이 to it nida
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>>56657602
rare character
i've never written it
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That's an appropriate word, Japan is blessed with 人, 稲 and 女 unlike neighbors.
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as kawaii as 小日本 nida
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>>56657959
China love our 小日本chan
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倭 (wo) actually describes the act of bending the back forward while standing
it also has the same meaning as 逶 which means meandering
倭傀 is an ugly woman, 傀 is the wooden puppet in a puppet show
while 倭妥 means a beautiful face, 妥 means fitting or suitable
so it really depends
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>>56657993
いきなり火病かよあいつ
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>>56657993
peaceful
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>>56657602
>キムチ野郎
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What does this mean?
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>>56658648
mi, rice
japan also uses to homophone for america
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No problem
We are Japanese
Not Koreans
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i just feel that it is merely historical Kanji
魏志倭人伝
倭国
and so on, ^o-
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>>56658597
t.mornig.blue.dragon
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>>56657774
wow, cute
who is last women?
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>>56659083
Yuriko Hisimi
well known as Anne Taiin in Ultraman Series which is one of Tokusatu
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>>56659873
tanks, anon
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倭 is a phono-semantic word consisting of the semantic radical 人 and the phonetic radical 委, meaning that at the time this word was first created, it had the same sound as 委.
The Shuowen Jiezi says 倭 means "diligent", but it was probably used phonetically since Wa is a first person pronoun in the Japanese language (Wa ga Kuni means Our Homecountry, for example), and this could've been misinterpreted as the people's own name by the Chinese.
The idea that it means something like dwarf was actually the theory of some Japanese writer from 17th century Edo, apparently because 委 is similar to 萎, but it makes little sense considering that during the same time period the Chinese state of Wei identified themselves with the character 魏
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