pseudo-Chineseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• pseudoChinese

語源

From pseudo- +‎ Chinese, a calque of Japanese 偽中国語.

発音

• IPA: /ˌsuːdəʊ tʃaɪˈniːz/ (Can we verify this pronunciation?)

名詞

pseudo-Chinese (uncountable)

1. (neologism) A Japanese humorous written variant which remarkably resembles Chinese by exclusively using kanji.
   • 2023 July 20, Victor Mair, “Pseudo-Chinese conversation of a Japanese couple”, in Language Log‎ (blog), archived from the original on 5 December 2023:

     The Japanese caption at the top right of the first image reads, "When I was texting with my husband in pseudo-Chinese using only kanji".

   • 2025 March 3, Sha Qingqing, “The Japanese App Where Everyone Speaks Chinese (But Not Really)”, in Matt Turner, transl., edited by Cai Yineng, Sixth Tone‎, archived from the original on 30 May 2026:

     Pseudo-Chinese has been floating around the Japanese internet since the early 2000s. But its recent popularity can be traced to the 62-year-old former Japanese cabinet minister — and prolific poster — Kono Taro. In 2019, while serving as Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kono — who has expressed frustration over his repeated failures to learn Chinese — posted a message on his personal Twitter account using pseudo-Chinese: “Had lunch and talked with important people in the Chinese foreign affairs field; packed luggage, going home.”

   • 2026 March 11, Yi Liu, “Abstract”, in Understanding translanguaging creativity on Chinese Weibo: the example of pseudo-Chinese phenomenon:

     Pseudo-Chinese, an emergent online language phenomenon blending Chinese, Japanese, emojis, and emoticons, is examined in this study through a translanguaging lens on Weibo.

   • 2026 March 27, Gnome, 0:45 from the start, in Japan's Fake Chinese Language‎:

     But what exactly is pseudo-Chinese and where did it come from?

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pseudo-,‎ Chinese. Something resembling Chinese.
   • 2016 August 31, Alex Vickery, “Book From the Sky”, in The Alcalde‎, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:

     Over several years in the late 1980s, he painstakingly created 4,000 pseudo-Chinese characters—the number of characters required for literacy in Mandarin—and carved them into wooden blocks.

   • 2023 August 28, Austin Yip, “Creating Pseudo-Chinese Characters and Exploring Their Referential Meanings”, in Medium‎, archived from the original on 2 June 2026:

     Creating Pseudo-Chinese Characters and Exploring Their Referential Meanings [title]