Category:Japanese shortenings

Japanese terms that are shortened forms of other words or word combinations.

• Category:Japanese abbreviations: Japanese abbreviated words or groups of words.
• Category:Japanese acronyms: Japanese groups of words represented by parts pronounced together as single words.
• Category:Japanese clippings: Japanese words that were formed from another word by removing part of it, but without changing the part of speech.
• Category:Japanese contractions: Japanese shortened words or phrases, deriving from multiple words.
• Category:Japanese ellipses: Japanese terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Japanese initialisms: Japanese groups of words represented by their beginning parts pronounced separately.
• Category:Japanese short forms: Japanese terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.