Etymology

doujin

dou·jin
D2O1U1J8I1N1

Today it means: A product produced and sold independently of corporations (in Japan); an indie work. Full definition →

Japanese 同人
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from同人“colleague, people with similar interests”
  2. English todaydoujin

Borrowed from Japanese 同人 (dōjin, “colleague, people with similar interests”, literally “same people”). The spelling is derived from the informal wāpuro rōmaji romanization style of 同人 (どうじん, do-u-ji-n).

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