The icon is katakana, the one of Japan's syllabic writing systems used to represent foreign words and loan words (among many other things). By "syllabic", I mean that each character represents an entire syllable, not just a single phoneme.
Syllable by syllable, the text should be transliterated "a-ru-ma-ji-ro"; as a full word, "arumajiro".
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The icon is katakana, the one of Japan's syllabic writing systems used to represent foreign words and loan words (among many other things). By "syllabic", I mean that each character represents an entire syllable, not just a single phoneme.
Syllable by syllable, the text should be transliterated "a-ru-ma-ji-ro"; as a full word, "arumajiro".
Edited to fix HTML typo.
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