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Japanese
Pronunciation 1
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| 【漢語】
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- kango, a Japanese word of Chinese origin, or a Japanese word coined along Chinese lines (a Sino-Japanese word)
- (less commonly) the Chinese language
- the ancient Chinese language, the language of the Han (漢／汉 (hàn)) ethnicity
- retained their original meanings in Classical Chinese, such as 天 (ten, “heaven”), 天下 (tenka, “the world”) or 菩薩 (bosatsu, “bodhisattva”)
- were repurposed to translate Western concepts, such as 社会 (shakai, “society”), 文化 (bunka, “culture”), 過渡 (kato, “transition”) or 博士 (hakushi, “doctor”)
- were newly coined from Classical Chinese syllables, morphemes or graphemes, such as 出超 (shutchō, “trade surplus”) or 腺 (sen, “gland”), where words coined from more than one syllable are called wasei kango (和製漢語) and coined kanji are called kokuji (国字)
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| 【喚語】
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- to think of something that wants to be said
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| (This term, かんご (kango), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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(The following entry is uncreated: 閑語.)
Pronunciation 2
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| 【歓語】
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- having fun while talking together
- to have fun while talking together
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| (This term, かんご (kango), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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(The following entries are uncreated: 歓娯, 刊誤, 款晤, 款語, 閑語, 感悟.)
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