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Character translation please 2008/12/23 08:12
What does this û– character mean?

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by dreamer  

. 2008/12/23 15:57
It means mushrooms.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%8F%87

But it is seldom used in daily Japanese.
If you saw it in email it is probably a garbled pictogram (emoji) typed in a Japanese mobile phone.
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To meringue4 2008/12/23 16:01
Yes, I did see it in an email with a picture of a little bear blowing a kiss and it said "My cute chan".

Why would the mushroom character be paired with that?
by dreamer rate this post as useful

... 2008/12/23 17:01
Why would...

As meringue4 probably guessed right, it must have been a cute pictogram that unfortunately got "garbled" into that kanji just by chance.
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