mojibake

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Etymology

Japanese 文字化け (mojibake), from 文字 (moji, “character”) + 化ける (bakeru, “transform, take a different form”, generally in a negative way).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˌmoʊ.dʒi.ˈbɑ.ki/, /ˌmoʊ.dʒi.ˈbɑ.keɪ/
• (UK) IPA: /ˌməʊ.dʒi.ˈbɑː.ki/, /ˌməʊ.dʒi.ˈbɑː.keɪ/

Noun

mojibake (uncountable)

1. corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding, e.g., •¶Žš‰»‚¯, which is a corruption of 文字化け.

Translations

corrupt characters or letters

• Ancient Greek: παράγραμμα (parágramma) n
• Arabic: موجيباكي (ar) (mujibaki) m
• Bulgarian: маймуница (bg) (majmunica) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亂碼 (cmn), 乱码 (cmn) (luànmǎ)

• French: mojibake (fr)
• Galician: mojibake (gl)
• German: Mojibake (de) f, Zeichensalat (de) m, Krähenfüße (de) m pl
• Hebrew: סינית (he) (sinít) f
• Japanese: 文字化け (ja) (もじばけ, mojibake)
• Korean: 깨진 (ko) (kkaejin) 글자 (ko) (geulja)

• Polish: krzaki (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: mojibake (pt)
• Romanian: maimuțica (ro)
• Russian: кракозябра (ru) (krakozjábra) f, крокозябра (ru) (krokozjábra) f, крякозябра (ru) (krjakozjábra) f, бнопня (ru) (bnopnjá) f, бНОПНЯ (ru) (bNOPNJÁ) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ђубре (sh)

  Roman: đubre (sh)

• Spanish: mojibake (es)
• Swedish: mojibake (sv)

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Japanese

Romanization

mojibake

1. See もじばけ