Japanese dictionary

Dictionary: “文字化け”

文字化け

もじばけ

corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text

Example sentence

On some OS's you get gibberish for filenames with full-width characters so when downloading please change to a suitable filename.

Kanji details

文

・sentence

・literature

・style

・art

・decoration

・figures

・plan

・literary radical (no. 67)

字

・character

・letter

・word

・section of village

化

・change

・take the form of

・influence

・enchant

・delude

・-ization