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- Japanese · borrowed from怪獣
- English todaykaiju
From Japanese 怪獣 (かいじゅう, kaijū), from Middle Chinese 怪 (kweajᴴ, “strange, fantastic”) + 獸 (syuwᴴ, “beast”) (compare Mandarin 怪獸 /怪兽 (guàishòu)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
kaiju
Today it means: A fictional giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films and other media, like Godzilla, King Kong or Gamera. Full definition →
Japanese 怪獣