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山塞山砦山寨
さんさい
1. [n]
▶ mountain stronghold
2. [n]
▶ den of mountain bandits
3. (山寨 only) [adj-f,n] [net-sl]
《Chinese neologism》
▶ knock-off (goods, esp. Chinese-made electronics)
▶ counterfeit
▶ shanzhai



History:
6. A 2023-02-13 19:58:18  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2023-02-13 19:45:38  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5, prog, daij
  Comments:
Added sense.
I felt the shanzhai sense could be improved.
  Diff:
@@ -20,0 +21,4 @@
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>den of mountain bandits</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
@@ -21,0 +26 @@
+<pos>&adj-f;</pos>
@@ -22,0 +28,4 @@
+<misc>&net-sl;</misc>
+<s_inf>Chinese neologism</s_inf>
+<gloss>knock-off (goods, esp. Chinese-made electronics)</gloss>
+<gloss>counterfeit</gloss>
@@ -24 +32,0 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">counterfeit goods (esp. Chinese)</gloss>
4. A 2023-02-12 11:01:45  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2023-02-12 07:07:01  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google image search: 
山寨: Counterfeit Goods
山塞: Mountain strongholds

山寨(さんさい、シャンツァイ、shānzhài)とは、中国語で「模倣品、ニセモノ」などの意味を持つ言葉である。現代ではさらに派生した意味を持ち...
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/山寨

山寨手机(山寨携帯)
https://www.weblio.jp/wkpja/content/山寨_山寨手机(山寨携帯)

Shanzhai (Chinese: 山寨; pinyin: shānzhài; Cantonese Jyutping: saan1 zaai6; Vietnamese: sơn trại) is a Chinese term literally meaning "mountain fortress" or "mountain camp", whose contemporary use usually encompasses counterfeit, imitation, or parody products and events and the subculture surrounding them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai

山寨手機(さんさいしゅき、シャンジャイショウジ、簡体字: 山寨手机、拼音: shānzhài shǒujī)とは、中国語で模倣携帯電話機のことである。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/山寨手機

As an example, these terms did not *exist* at the time the corpus was built:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
山寨手機	No matches Wikipedia(Initial entry Jul 2009):https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/山寨手機
山寨スマホ No matches
山寨携帯	No matches
  Comments:
Replaced [restr] kanji for "counterfeit goods (esp. Chinese)".

I *think* this was a copy/paste oversight with the wrong kanji, as 山寨 is the kanji used in the original references from 2021.

山寨 for "counterfeit goods" is clearly proportionally more common today than it was when the google n-gram corpus was built in 2009.  I was tempted to suggest that the forms should be re-ordered, but it's quite hard to tease out relative statistics when so many Chinese results are mixed in with google search results. Probably not critical either way.
  Diff:
@@ -21 +21 @@
-<stagk>山塞</stagk>
+<stagk>山寨</stagk>
2. A 2021-04-22 18:08:27  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai - Chinese term literally meaning "mountain 
fortress" or "mountain village" whose contemporary use usually encompasses counterfeit, 
imitation, or parody products and events and the subculture surrounding them.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/shanzhai - Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means 
“fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as 
Nokir and Samsing.
  Comments:
I needed convincing the romaji was used in English. Seems it is.
  Diff:
@@ -24 +24 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">counterfeit Chinese good</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">counterfeit goods (esp. Chinese)</gloss>
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