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- Japanese · borrowed fromこいこい
- English todaykoi-koi
Borrowed from Japanese こいこい (koikoi), a reduplication of 来(こ)い (koi, imperative form of 来(く)る (kuru, “to come”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
koi-koi
Today it means: A Japanese card game for two players played with hanafuda cards, similar to the Korean game of go-stop Full definition →
Japanese こいこい