mojibake

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌməʊd͡ʒiˈbɑːki/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-keɪ/
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• General-American: /ˌmoʊd͡ʒiˈbɑki/
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• General-American: /-keɪ/
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Borrowed from Japanese 文字化け (mojibake), from 文字 (moji, “character”) + 化ける (bakeru, “to transform, take a different form”, generally in a negative way).

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُوجِيبَاكِي (mujibākī) — corrupt characters or letters
• Belarusian: краказя́бра (krakazjábra) — corrupt characters or letters
• Bulgarian: маймуница (majmunica) — corrupt characters or letters
• Chinese Cantonese: 亂碼 /乱码 (lyun6 maa5) — corrupt characters or letters
• Chinese: 亂碼 /乱码 (zh-min-nan) — corrupt characters or letters
• Chinese Mandarin: 亂碼 /乱码 (luànmǎ) — corrupt characters or letters
• Dutch: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• Esperanto: moĝibako — corrupt characters or letters
• Finnish: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• French: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• Galician: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• German: Mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• German: Krähenfüße — corrupt characters or letters
• German: Zeichensalat — corrupt characters or letters
• Central Franconian: Bochstabesallaat — corrupt characters or letters
• Hebrew: סינית (sinít) — corrupt characters or letters
• Hungarian: modzsibake — corrupt characters or letters
• Hungarian: betűszemét — corrupt characters or letters
• Hungarian: krikszkraksz — corrupt characters or letters
• Italian: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• Japanese: 文字化け (mojibake) — corrupt characters or letters
• Korean: 문자 깨짐 (munja kkaejim) — corrupt characters or letters
• Korean: 글자 깨짐 (geulja kkaejim) — corrupt characters or letters
• Korean: 깨진 문자 (kkaejin munja) — corrupt characters or letters
• Korean: 깨진 글자 (kkaejin geulja) — corrupt characters or letters
• Norwegian Bokmål: tegnsalat — corrupt characters or letters
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teiknsalat — corrupt characters or letters
• Persian: موجیباکه (mojibâke) — corrupt characters or letters
• Polish: krzaczki — corrupt characters or letters
• Portuguese: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• Romanian: maimuțica — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: модзиба́ке (modzibáke) — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: бнопня́ (bnopnjá) — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: бНОПНЯ́ (bNOPNJÁ) — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: бу́ква «зю» — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: кракозя́бра (krakozjábra) — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: крякозя́бра (krjakozjábra) — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: крокозя́бра (krokozjábra) — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: закаля́ка (zakaljáka) — corrupt characters or letters
• Russian: зю́ква (zjúkva) — corrupt characters or letters
• Serbo-Croatian: ђу̏бре — corrupt characters or letters
• Serbo-Croatian: đȕbre — corrupt characters or letters
• Spanish: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• Swedish: mojibake — corrupt characters or letters
• Thai: ภาษาต่างดาว (paa-sǎa-dtàang-daao) — corrupt characters or letters
• Ukrainian: крокозя́бра (krokozjábra) — corrupt characters or letters
• Vietnamese: loạn mã — corrupt characters or letters