Etymology

kaibun

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Today it means: A form of Japanese palindrome. Full definition →

Japanese 回文
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from回文
  2. English todaykaibun

From Japanese 回文 (literally “circle sentence”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.