Meaning of gyaru-moji | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A form of cryptic Japanese writing that substitutes similar-looking characters for the characters intended
   uncountable, usually
2. The characters or symbols used for such substitutions
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“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.”

“Gyarumoji (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 numerals, the Greek alphabet) with typographic, mathematical, and other symbols”

“For example, the phonetic symbol に (ni) can be written in gyaru moji as |=, I=, (=, or L=”

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