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Japanese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English line.
Noun
ライン • (rain)
- line (path through two or more points)
- fishing line
- ラインの強度
- rain no kyōdo
- strength of the fishing line
- (business) team, workgroup
- 開発ライン
- kaihatsu rain
- development team
- line, boundary
- Synonym: 境界線 (kyōkaisen)
- 微妙なライン
- bimyō na rain
- ambiguous boundary; of a grey zone
- ○○かどうか微妙なライン
- ○○ ka dō ka bimyō na rain
- difficult to say whether it is X or not
- ぎりぎりのラインを攻める
- girigiri no rain o semeru
- to repeatedly approach the boundary to unacceptability
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Korean 라인 (rain, “members with a shared characteristic”), from English line.
Noun
ライン • (rain)
- (South Korean idol fandom) line (group of people born in a certain year; liners)
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