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=== Origin of the name === The name "Doraemon" can be roughly translated to "stray". Unusually, the name {{nihongo4|"Doraemon"|ใใฉใใใ}} is written in a mixture of two Japanese scripts: [[Katakana]] ({{nihongo2|ใใฉ}}) and [[Hiragana]] ({{nihongo2|ใใใ}}). "Dora" derives from {{nihongo4|"dora neko"|ใฉใ็ซ||stray cat}}, and is a corruption of nora (stray),<ref name="Min Chew-2014" /> while "-emon" (in kanji {{nihongo2|ๅณ่ก้}}) is an old-fashioned suffix for male names (for example, as in [[Ishikawa Goemon]]).<ref name="The Japan Times-2004" /> Nobita's home address in Tsukimidai ("moon-view-heights"), [[Nerima]] refers to Fujimidai ("[[Mount Fuji|Fuji]]-view-heights"), where [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s residence and animation studio is based.<ref name="Shiraishi 1997">{{Harvnb|Shiraishi|1997|p=238}}</ref> The name "Nobita Nobi" refers to "nobi nobi", meaning "the way a young child grows up free, healthy, and happy, unrestrained in any sense".<ref name="Shiraishi 1997" /><ref>This meaning is explained by Nobita's father in {{Cite book|url=https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09140002|title=ใใฉใใใ 2|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|isbn=4091400027|publication-date=1974-08-26|pages=56|language=ja|trans-title=Doraemon 2|chapter=ใผใใฎ็ใพใใๆฅ|date=September 1974 |trans-chapter=The Day I Was Born|access-date=2022-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423030708/http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09140002|archive-date=2016-04-23|url-status=live}}</ref>
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