Napier goes on to point out that many Japanese commentators refer to anime with the term " mukokuseki ", meaning " stateless ".

The Emperor is called the Tennō ( 天皇 ) in Japanese, literally meaning " heavenly sovereign ".

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

Over the foreign text, smaller sized Japanese words, in kana or kanji, corresponding to the meaning of the foreign words, effectively translate it in place.

In Japanese syllabaries, a number of the characters are made up of more than one separate mark, but in general these separate marks are not glyphs because they have no meaning by themselves.

Although, in the United Kingdom ( UK ), the pejorative noun " anorak " ( similar to the Japanese " otaku ", meaning a geek or enthusiast ) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring.

In the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese languages, the term was translated by Kumārajīva and others as " small vehicle " ( 小 meaning " small ", 乘 meaning " vehicle "), although earlier and more accurate translations of the term also exist.

In Japanese slang, hentai is used as an insult meaning roughly " pervert " or " weirdo ".

There is a form of the language considered standard:, meaning " standard Japanese ", or, " common language ".

The French term Boxe pieds-poings ( literally " feet-fists-boxing ") is also used in the sense of " kickboxing " in the general meaning, including French boxing ( savate ) as well as American and Japanese kickboxing, Burmese and Thai boxing, any style of full contact karate, etc.

While the sound remained more or less the same when pronounced in Japanese, the literal meaning of the name changed from " Beating Dog " to " High Hero ".

, meaning " Way of The Sword ", is a modern Japanese martial art of sword-fighting based on traditional swordsmanship ( kenjutsu ) which originated with the samurai class of feudal Japan.

In Japanese, the wild kiwi vine is called 猿梨 サルナシ sarunashi, which has the same meaning as Chinese 獼猴梨 míhóu lí (" macaque pear ").

The word koi comes from Japanese, simply meaning " carp ".

Amae ( 甘え ), a Japanese word meaning " indulgent dependence ," is part of the child-rearing culture of Japan.

The game was called 麻雀 (), meaning sparrow in Chinese, which is still the name most commonly used in some southern Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Min Nan, as well as in Japanese.

Though initially sarcastic and self-possessed to the point of arrogance ( Leiko is actually a Japanese name meaning " arrogant ") her relationship with her new lover causes her to become more contemplative.

Japanese economic activity was so extreme during their occupation, that the industrial capital, Koror, was once termed by Japanese officials and tourists as " chiisai Tokyo ", meaning " little Tokyo.

In the nineteenth century, gomoku was introduced to Britain where it was known as " Go Bang " ( borrowed from Japanese ' goban ' 碁盤 meaning ' go board ').

a Japanese Go term meaning ‘ initiative ’ or the ability to lay a stone that demands a continuing defensive posture from one's opponent.

" It was triggered by a collapse in land and stock prices, which caused Japanese firms to have negative equity, meaning their assets were worth less than their liabilities.

Other primary aspects of Japanese science fiction TV are the superhero tokusatsu ( a term literally meaning special effects ) series, pioneered by programs such as Moonlight Mask and Planet Prince.

The average Congolese can do little more than puzzle out the meaning of `` la chatte '' and `` le chien '' and write his name.

With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.

The former uncorrected time scale continues to be published, under the name EAL ( Echelle Atomique Libre, meaning Free Atomic Scale ).

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

The scientific name of the aardvark comes from Greek ορυκτερόπους ( orykterópous ) meaning " digging footed " and afer: from Africa.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ".

The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.

The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

Foucault warns of the risks of keeping the author's name in mind during interpretation, because it could affect the value and meaning with which one handles an interpretation.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

In Slovene, the most established traditional name is mali traven, meaning the month when plants start growing.

According to this interpretation, the name is from aphrós " foam " and déatai " seems " or " shines " ( infinitive form * déasthai ), meaning " she who shines from the foam ", a byname of the dawn goddess ( Eos ).

Less frequently, the adjective can take this meaning without a qualifier, as in " American Spanish dialects and pronunciation differ by country ", or the name of the Organization of American States.

The last whorl ( known as the body whorl ) is auriform, meaning that the shell resembles an ear, giving rise to the common name " ear shell ".

The modern name for amber is thought to come from the Arabic word, ambar, meaning ambergris.

Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ), meaning " defending men " or " protector of men ", a compound of the verb " ἀλέξω " ( alexō ), " to ward off, to avert, to defend " and the noun " ἀνδρός " ( andros ), genitive of " ἀνήρ " ( anēr ), " man ".

The name Amaryllis is taken from a shepherdess in Virgil's pastoral Eclogues, from the Greek (), meaning " to sparkle ".

In the Kannakatthala Sutta ( MN 90 ), Ananda is identified with the meaning of his name:

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.