{"id":1961,"date":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","slug":"interesting-japanese-www","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/interesting-japanese-www\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Japanese &#8211; www"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">If you exchange a lot of texts with Japanese people, you&#8217;ll have noticed they tend to use &#8220;www&#8221; a lot in their conversations. &#8220;w&#8221; is Japanese language text-speak for &#8220;lol&#8221; (the &#8220;w&#8221; is short for \u7b11\u3044 &#8211; &#8220;warai&#8221; &#8211; to laugh), and &#8220;www&#8221; is called &#8220;\u8349&#8221; (\u304f\u3055 &#8211; kusa) in Japanese . Generally, the more &#8220;w&#8221;&#8216;s there are, the funnier something is. One of the kanji used to write kusa is \u8278 &#8211; which texters will often use in emoticons, since it looks like a pair of hands raised to cover someone&#8217;s mouth as though laughing: (*\u00b4\u8278\uff40*)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| If you exchange a lot of texts with Japanese people, you&#8217;ll have noticed they tend to use &#8220;www&#8221; a lot in their conversations. &#8220;w&#8221; is Japanese language text-speak for &#8220;lol&#8221; (the &#8220;w&#8221; is short for \u7b11\u3044 &#8211; &#8220;warai&#8221; &#8211; to laugh), and &#8220;www&#8221; is called &#8220;\u8349&#8221; (\u304f\u3055 &#8211; kusa) in Japanese . 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