gyaru-moji
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3ADJ.
secret
VERB + GYARU-MOJI
rise
GYARU-MOJI + NOUN
girl-signs
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noun
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.
Today, the same kind of inventiveness is seen in SMS gyarumoji ('girl-talk'), which is a mixture of Japanese syllables, numerals, emoticons, and other characters.
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=
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3In fact, newspaper accounts chronicle the rise of gyaru-moji (“girl-signs”), a “secret” texting language of symbols improvised by Japanese teenage girls.
WiktionaryToday, the same kind of inventiveness is seen in SMS gyarumoji ('girl-talk'), which is a mixture of Japanese syllables, numerals, emoticons, and other characters.
WiktionaryGyarumoji (gal characters) are designed to hinder the decoding of text by those not in the know. They usually take the form of an unusual mixture of scripts (e.g. Japanese, the alphabet, Roman numeral
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