i want to engrave my gamertag (“mosaic”). I got a translation モザイク (mozaiku) but i want to know if there is maybe one more specific or shorter translation ?
Nope, the approximate phonetic transliteration that you got would be it
What kind of mosaic are you looking to refer to? The art medium or a mosaic censorship filter like in adult videos? Both are loan words that were introduced relatively recently in the lifespan of Japanese and as such don’t have kanji associated with them. The closest kanji I found is 寄木 which refers to those wood parquet tiles. Not quite what you’re looking for though I think. I should note that, because of its association with adult videos, you may want to think twice before using the kana loan word on your engraving.
No, in the same way English doesn’t have a Germanic-root word for it. [“Mosaic” comes from Greek mythology via thousands of years of Latin/Romance languages](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mosaic#Etymology)
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Nope, the approximate phonetic transliteration that you got would be it
What kind of mosaic are you looking to refer to? The art medium or a mosaic censorship filter like in adult videos?
Both are loan words that were introduced relatively recently in the lifespan of Japanese and as such don’t have kanji associated with them.
The closest kanji I found is 寄木 which refers to those wood parquet tiles. Not quite what you’re looking for though I think.
I should note that, because of its association with adult videos, you may want to think twice before using the kana loan word on your engraving.
No, in the same way English doesn’t have a Germanic-root word for it. [“Mosaic” comes from Greek mythology via thousands of years of Latin/Romance languages](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mosaic#Etymology)
[Even Chinese uses a phonetic borrowing](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E8%B3%BD%E5%85%8B#Mandarin)
Ironically enough “mosaic” in Latin *already* feels like it could easily be a Japanese gamertag.