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What does the name mean? Nothing on the site or rudimentary Googling. Seems like it'll be a tough url to share verbally without having to spell it out.

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That's a transliteration of "click" in Japanese.

Of course, Japanese has its own writing system, and "click" is written as クリック and pronounced roughly as "kurikku").

I need to wonder why people insist on using terrible names like these. It takes careful analysis of the word just to be able to read and pronounce it, and I will certainly never remember it. Especially contrast with Rap Genius, a name that's wonderful in its simplicity (if not its creativity.)

Case in point, I first read this on my phone, and wanted to investigate further now that I'm on my laptop. So I go to HN and no longer see it on the front page, and can't conjure up what I want to search for. Uh, something Japanese-sounding that starts with a "k", I think?

It's a japanification of the word "click". I don't know of any other meaning beyond that, though.

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