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- Mandarin · derived from倭寇“Japanese pirates”
- English todaywokou
From Mandarin 倭寇 (wōkòu, “Japanese pirates”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: Pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries. Full definition →
Mandarin 倭寇