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There are also a few occasions in Japanese where both inversions are acceptable words, such as 理論 riron 'theory' and 論理 ronri 'logic', or 便利 benri 'convenient' and 利便 riben 'convenient (but fancy-sounding)'.

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farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
先輩 and 輩先 both mean a senior (as in rank relative to you) in Japanese. It seems like they mean ‘ancestor’ and ‘senior’ in Chinese per Google Translate.

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- nantsuu@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  True, but I think that one's a bit different, because 輩先 (usually written in katakana as パイセン) is a humorous slang term based off 先輩.
  
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  - farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I don’t think I’ve ever seen パイセン written at all, come to think of it. It is slang, that much is true.
    
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