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<blockquote data-quote="SowiesoGroyp" data-source="post: 24996" data-attributes="member: 6"><p>i wonder if "tempura" has its own kanji despite being a loanword (which you'd think would be written in katakana) because it's a relatively old loanword (maybe katakana wasn't as widely-used at the time -- although katakana was invented in the 9th century, whereas tempura was coined in the 16th century, which is quite a significant difference).</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji[/URL]</p><p></p><p>not sure what counts as an "earlier era"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>(sorry that this thread has turned into my personal autism chamber)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SowiesoGroyp, post: 24996, member: 6"] i wonder if "tempura" has its own kanji despite being a loanword (which you'd think would be written in katakana) because it's a relatively old loanword (maybe katakana wasn't as widely-used at the time -- although katakana was invented in the 9th century, whereas tempura was coined in the 16th century, which is quite a significant difference). [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji[/URL] not sure what counts as an "earlier era" (sorry that this thread has turned into my personal autism chamber) [/QUOTE]
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