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Description

Template for Japanese etymologies. Shortcut for adding wasei eigo etymologies, and adds entries to Category:Japanese pseudo-loans from English.

Usage

The simplest case:

  • {{wasei eigo|sort=わんまん}} -- produces:

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism)

This also adds the page to Category:Japanese pseudo-loans from English, and correctly indexes the entry to the reading わんまん (wanman).

For wasei eigo terms deriving directly from English terms:

  • {{wasei eigo|sort=わんまん|one|man}} -- produces:

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from one +‎ man

This also adds the page to Category:Japanese pseudo-loans from English, and correctly indexes the entry to the reading わんまん (wanman).

Parameters

  • {{{1}}} to {{{4}}} (optional): takes up to four English words and links each one to its English entry.
  • sort= (optional): it is basically required in order to correctly sort kanji-spelled entries in the Category:Japanese pseudo-loans from English category index.
  • nocap= (optional): fill this parameter with any text to spell wasei without capital letter if it is not the first word in the etymology section.
  • nocat= (optional): fill this parameter with any text to prevent the addition of the "Wasei eigo" category