Category:English terms calqued from Japanese

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. tortoise shell bracket
  2. cherry boy
  3. absolute territory
  4. bullet climb
  5. Lolita complex
  6. death flag
  7. plum rains
  8. Doctor Yellow
  9. independent mini-nation
  10. mini-independent country
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. pillow word
  2. martial art
  3. Meiji period
  4. National Diet
  5. Shimose powder
  6. fall seven times, stand up eight
  7. tea whisk
  8. Devil's Sea
  9. light novel
  10. deer scarer

English terms that were calqued from Japanese, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Japanese terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|ja|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.