If you exchange a lot of texts with Japanese people, you’ll have noticed they tend to use “www” a lot in their conversations. “w” is Japanese language text-speak for “lol” (the “w” is short for \u7b11\u3044 – “warai” – to laugh), and “www” is called “\u8349” (\u304f\u3055 – kusa) in Japanese . Generally, the more “w”‘s there are, the funnier something is. One of the kanji used to write kusa is \u8278 – which texters will often use in emoticons, since it looks like a pair of hands raised to cover someone’s mouth as though laughing: (*\u00b4\u8278\uff40*)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
| If you exchange a lot of texts with Japanese people, you’ll have noticed they tend to use “www” a lot in their conversations. “w” is Japanese language text-speak for “lol” (the “w” is short for \u7b11\u3044 – “warai” – to laugh), and “www” is called “\u8349” (\u304f\u3055 – kusa) in Japanese . Generally, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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