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JRPG

JRPG is the initialism of Japanese role-playing game.

Forms of JRPG

pluralJRPGs

Origin of JRPG

From J- (“Japanese”) + RPG (“role-playing game”), first attested in a post by the user Isao Takeda on Usenet in 1992 (see quote).

Questions about JRPG

What is JRPG the initialism of?
JRPG is the initialism of Japanese role-playing game.

Words near JRPG in the dictionary

  1. JREs
  2. JRG
  3. JRM
  4. JRMP
  5. JROTC
  6. JRPG
  7. JRPGs
  8. JRRT
  9. JRT
  10. JRTs
  11. js

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Adapted from Wiktionary: JRPG (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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