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- Japanese · borrowed from判じ絵
- English todayhanjie
Borrowed from Japanese 判じ絵 (hanjie, literally “picture puzzle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A puzzle in which cells of a grid must be filled or left blank, according to sets of numbers given at the side of the grid, to reveal a hidden picture. Full definition →
Borrowed from Japanese 判じ絵 (hanjie, literally “picture puzzle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.