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gyaru moji

gyaru moji is the alternative form of gyaru-moji.

Meaning of gyaru-moji

Noun

gyaru-moji (usually uncountable, plural gyaru-moji)

  1. (usually) A form of cryptic Japanese writing that substitutes similar-looking characters for the characters intended
    • In fact, newspaper accounts chronicle the rise of gyaru-moji (“girl-signs”), a “secret” texting language of symbols improvised by Japanese teenage girls.2009, Aaron Marcus, “Advanced Interaction Modalities with Mobile Digital Content”, in Aaron Marcus, Anxo Cereijo Roibás, Riccardo Sala, editors, Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience, page 296
  2. (usually) The characters or symbols used for such substitutions
    • For example, the phonetic symbol に (ni) can be written in gyaru moji as |=, I=, (=, or L=2015, Zheng Yan, Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior, page 1437

Forms of gyaru moji

pluralgyaru moji

Questions about gyaru moji

What is gyaru moji the alternative form of?
Gyaru moji is the alternative form of gyaru-moji.

Words near gyaru moji in the dictionary

  1. gyants
  2. Gyantse
  3. gyapik
  4. gyapiks
  5. gyaru
  6. gyaru moji
  7. gyaru-moji
  8. gyarumoji
  9. Gyarung
  10. gyarus
  11. gyascutus

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