mojibake

Meaning

Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.

Synonyms

Chinese

🇨🇳/🇲🇴

Translations

mojibake

mojibake

mojibake

Chinesisch

🇨🇳/🇲🇴

Mojibake

Krähenfüße

Zeichensalat

mojibake

κινέζικα

κινεζικά

صيني

🇨🇳/🇲🇴

mojibake

Çînî

lingua Sinica

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌməʊd͡ʒiˈbɑːki/

Etymology

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).