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I came across the words "Boyz", and "EZ" in English, and wondered if any Kanji
characters were used in the same way. Thank you very much.
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word-choice slang
Are any Japanese words ever intentionally misspelled for any reason?
(It's easier to give examples using kana (それで **わ** , もうやめ **れ** , 止め **ろ**
ください, **ぬ** こ, イ **ソ** ターネット, メー **ノレ** , ふ **いん** き, ようつべ, ...), but you want
examples with kanji? Okay...)

{{pad}} For historical reasons Japanese kanij compounds can have dozens of
[同音異字語](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/15924/5010) (homophones; words
that share the same reading but have different kanji). And some argot and net-
slang words are based on this fact. Perhaps the best-known example is 厨房,
which is from a misspelling(?) of 中坊 (cf. [Use of 厨 on the
Internet](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/239/5010)). Similar examples
are writing 脂肪【しぼう】 ("fat") instead of 死亡【しぼう】 ("death"), writing 妊娠【にんしん】
("pregnant") instead of 任信【にんしん】 ("Nintendo fanboy").

{{pad}} Many slang words were made by creating funny _ateji_ for existing
words (including loanwords). 夜露死苦 meaning よろしく is a typical example (cf.
[Origin of 夜露死苦?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/15138/5010)) Other
famous examples are 鯖【さば】 meaning _server_ , プロ串【くし】 (or just 串) meaning
_proxy_ , 垢【あか】 meaning _account_ , 尼【あま】 meaning _Amazon.co.jp_ , 裏山【うらやま】
meaning うらやましい ("I envy it").

Most of the words I wrote here are more or less dirty or at least heavily
slangy, so please don't try to use them. I won't.
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