文字化け

Japanese

FWOTD – 28 February 2017
文字化け: The Japanese Wikipedia opened in Internet Explorer with improper encoding to illustrate mojibake.
Kanji in this term
文 字 化
もん > も
Grade: 1		 じ
Grade: 1		 ば
Grade: 3
Irregular

Etymology

Compound of 文字 (moji, “character, letter”) +‎ 化け (bake), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 化ける (bakeru, “transform, take a different form”, generally in a negative way).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

文字化け (hiragana もじばけ, rōmaji mojibake)

  1. corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding, e.g., •¶Žš‰»‚¯, which is a corruption of 文字化け

Descendants

See also

  • 豆 (とう)腐 (ふ)化 (ば)け (tōfubake): a form of corrupted text display, where code points that are not included in the current font are instead displayed with empty rectangles that resemble blocks of tofu

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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