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The term '''''' is a slang term used to describe good-looking men in Japanese pop culture.

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The term '''' is a slang term used to describe good-looking men in Japanese pop culture.

The word is a portmanteau neologism derived from the Japanese words (いける) or and (メンズ). and mean "cool", "good", and "exciting", while is the Japanization of "men". This term has been sometimes jokingly written as "EK面" in internet slang.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ikemen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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