Meaning of 文字化け in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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文字化け
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Kana Readingもじばけ
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Romajimojibake
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text
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Example Sentences
文字化け, もじばけ used in context
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メッセージがなぜか文字化けしていたので、修復して読みました。
For some reason the message text was corrupted, so I restored it before reading.
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全角文字を含むファイル名の場合、一部のＯＳでは文字化けが生じることがありますので、ダウンロードの際に適宜ファイル名を変更してください。
On some OS's you get gibberish for filenames with full-width characters so when downloading please change to a suitable filename.
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Kanji found in this word
sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)
On: ブン, モン
Kun: ふみ, あや
4 strokes
change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
On: カ, ケ
Kun: ば.ける, ば.かす, ふ.ける, け.する
4 strokes
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