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(text messaging, Internet slang, dated) <3


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このバカｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ(´∀`*)

ちょ ｗｗｗ お前のツイート伸びすぎ ｗｗｗ 有名人じゃん ｗｗｗｗｗ

cho ｗｗｗ omae no tsuīto nobisugi ｗｗｗ yūmeijin jan ｗｗｗｗｗ

yo hol up, your tweet's crazy popular 🔥😂 you're goddamn famous 😂

(Internet slang, often repeated) LOL; an expression of amusement or laughter.


笑

(informal, teen slang) Alternative form of (笑): LOL


ねほりはほり【根掘り葉掘り】（〜尋ねる）
ネ＼ホリ・ハ＼ホリ
ネホリハ＼ホリ

2016, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典, Tokyo: NHK出版, →ISBN, ね, page 1041:

(lexicography, linguistics) used to denote pitch accent drops


Indicates the starting point of a range; from.

Indicating the lengthening of a pronunciation.


To-kyo-

(rare) A romanization of the ー (long vowel mark).


(informal) An emoticon indicating a singsong tone of voice or playful attitude.


used for "spaces" in transcriptions, or as other separators

(lexicography) used to separate furigana from okurigana when giving kanji readings in some dictionaries

ねほりはほり【根掘り葉掘り】（〜尋ねる）
ネ＼ホリ・ハ＼ホリ
ネホリハ＼ホリ

(lexicography, linguistics) used to denote accent phrase boundaries


. (full stop or period, marking the end of a sentence)


Coordinate term: 。


Likely derived from the 米 (“rice, uncooked rice”) character. Used on signage for rice sellers.

similar in function to an asterisk or bullet point


月〜金曜日

ペルソナ〜トリニティ・ソウル〜

Indicates the subtitle of a book, manga, video game, etc.


Lenticular brackets
lenticular bracket#English

(Internet slang) Encloses a heading or a text for emphasis.


Indicating the start of a part in a song.


Encloses the title of a work, such as book, movie, etc.

(video games, visual novels) Encloses character dialogue.

1905, https://web.archive.org/web/20201203234251/http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/mgda/waei/topics/jokun.html
和英字典ノ著者「ジェー、シー、ヘボン」ガ多年我國ニ在リ文化ノ進歩ニ貢献シタル所多キハ勿論
The author of the Japanese-English dictionary, J. C. Hepburn, has stayed at our country for many years, and it goes without saying that he has made much contribution to the advancement of our culture…

日本海軍、市丸海軍少将、書ヲ「フランクリン ルーズベルト」君ニ致ス。

Rear Admiral R. Ichimaru of the Japanese Navy sends this note to Franklin Roosevelt.

(obsolete) In kanji-katakana mixed writing before World War II, encloses 外来語 (gairaigo, “foreign loanwords”) written in katakana to mark them apart from ordinary katakana portions of the text.


檸檬（れもん）
檸檬 (remon)

Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses a regular or traditional pronunciation to kanji (sometimes other types of words, e.g. katakana in parentheses following an English word) that the readers may not necessarily know how to read.

親友（ライバル）

Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses an invented reading or a pronunciation borrowed from another language, which follows usually but not necessarily a kanji word, to conveys the word's deeper or second meaning (see 義(ぎ)訓(くん) (gikun)).

(Internet slang, with no content inside) Used to censor vulgar, profane or sensitive words or characters. A formal way to censor words in Japanese is using × or ○ instead. Compare 自主規制 in Japanese and x in Latin alphabet.

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(Internet slang) Added to the end of a message, with short text inside (the right parenthesis is optional), as a sort of tone indicator.

(Internet slang, by extension, with no content inside) Added to the end of a message to indicate a lighthearted or joking tone (the right parenthesis is optional),.


(ry

(Internet slang, often humorous) Used to abbreviate words or sentences when the rest is implicitly known.


The ideographical full stop (。) repeated thrice. Compare the ellipsis ([…]).


Visual rendering of Morse code for 、 (ideographic comma).


used in transcriptions of Western proper names, as a "space" (similar to a middle dot ・), a "hyphen" or an "en dash"; usually substituted by the more accessible fullwidth equal sign


Visual rendering of Morse code for 。 (“ideographic full stop”).


Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes

Straight single quotation mark and apostrophe

used for emphasis, or to set off metaphors, neologisms and the like.


(笑)

Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the audience is laughing.

(manga) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is laughing.


(震え声)

→ Chinese: (震聲)／(震声)

(2channel slang, Internet slang) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is speaking with a trembling voice.


(棒)

From 棒読(ぼうよ)み (bōyomi, literally “stick reading”).

ja-r

(Internet slang) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate flat or deadpan intonation.


(ぉ

(Internet slang, dated) Used at the end of a statement to riposte it oneself.