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ボールペン
ボールペン
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ball-point pen
Bōrupen is borrowed from English ball pen.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
ボールペンで書いてください。
Write with a ballpoint pen.
彼はボールペンを逆さに持った。
He held a ball-point by the wrong end.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Borrowed from English ball pen.”
Source: Wiktionary: ボールペン (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Made in Japan
- Coined in Japan from foreign material (wasei-kango, wasei-eigo), not borrowed whole.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.