gaiji

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 外字, literally "external characters".

Noun

gaiji (plural gaiji)

  1. A character that is valid in a given writing system, but that is not included in the present font and/or the present character encoding, and which therefore is displayed using an additional mechanism.[1][2] Mutually distinct from tofu and from mojibake.

References

  1. ^ https://www.w3.org/International/articles/missing-char-glyph/index.en
  2. ^ http://glyphs.webfoot.com/blog/2011/03/19/gaiji/

Japanese

Romanization

gaiji

  1. Rōmaji transcription of がいじ
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