mojibake

English

Mojibake in the text of Japanese Wikipedia, displayed with the wrong encoding.

Etymology

Borrowed from 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

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoʊ.dʒiˈbɑ.ki/, /ˌmoʊ.dʒiˈbɑ.keɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˌməʊ.dʒiˈbɑː.ki/, /ˌməʊ.dʒiˈbɑː.keɪ/

Noun

mojibake (uncountable)

1. (computing) Corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding.

Synonyms

• krakozyabry

Translations

corrupt characters or letters

• Ancient Greek: παράγραμμα n (parágramma)
• Arabic: مُوجِيبَاكِي m (mujibākī)
• Belarusian: краказя́бра f (krakazjábra)
• Bulgarian: маймуница f (majmunica)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 亂碼／乱码 (lyun⁶ maa⁵), 乱码 (lyun⁶ maa⁵)

  Mandarin: 亂碼／乱码 (zh) (luànmǎ), 乱码 (zh) (luànmǎ)

  Min Nan: 亂碼／乱码 (zh-min-nan), 乱码 (loān-bé)

• Esperanto: moĝibako
• Finnish: mojibake
• French: mojibake (fr)
• Galician: mojibake
• German: Mojibake f, Zeichensalat m, Krähenfüße (de) m pl
• Hebrew: סינית f (sinít)
• Hungarian: modzsibake, kriksz-kraksz, betűszemét
• Italian: mojibake pl
• Japanese: 文字化け (もじばけ, mojibake)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 깨진 (kkaejin) 글자 (ko) (geulja), 글자 깨짐 (geulja kkaejim), 외계어 (oegyeeo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tegnsalat

• Persian: موجیباکه (mojibâke)
• Polish: krzaki m pl
• Portuguese: mojibake
• Romanian: maimuțica
• Russian: кракозя́бра f (krakozjábra), крокозя́бра (ru) f (krokozjábra), крякозя́бра f (krjakozjábra), бнопня́ f (bnopnjá), бНОПНЯ́ f (bNOPNJá), модзиба́ке n (modzibáke), зю́ква f (zjúkva), закаля́ка f (zakaljáka), бу́ква «зю» f (búkva «zju»)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ђубре

  Roman: đubre (sh)

• Spanish: mojibake
• Swedish: mojibake
• Thai: ภาษาต่างดาว (paa-sǎa-dtàang-daao)
• Ukrainian: крокозя́бра f (krokozjábra)
• Vietnamese: loạn mã (亂碼)

Further reading

• mojibake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Japanese

Romanization

mojibake

1. Rōmaji transcription of もじばけ