Word Meaning 文字化け

もじばけ mojibake

文字化け is read as もじばけ (mojibake) and means corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding).

Meaning

English

  1. corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding)
  2. garbling
  3. illegal character
  4. corrupted text
  5. garbled text

Reading

Kana

もじばけ

Romaji

mojibake

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 17 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 69848 Priority K

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

文化

ぶんか

Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

文化財

ぶんかざい

cultural assets

文化人

ぶんかじん

person of culture

文明開化

ぶんめいかいか

civilization and enlightenment

文化映画

ぶんかえいが

cultural film

文字進行方向

もじしんこうほうこう

character path

文字実体集合

もじじったいしゅうごう

character entity set

文字定数

もじていすう

nonnumeric literal

文字

もじ

writing

文化的

ぶんかてき

cultural

Example Sentences

2

For some reason the message text was corrupted, so I restored it before reading.

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