wokou

See also: wōkòu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 倭寇 (wōkòu, “Japanese pirates”).

Noun

wokou pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) Pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries.

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