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Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
もどき • (modoki)
- 擬き: fake, imitation, mimicry
Suffix
もどき • (-modoki)
- 擬き, 擬: lookalike; similar
Derived terms
Verb
もどき • (modoki)
- 擬き: stem or continuative form of もどく (modoku)
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN