noun
wokou; Japanese pirates (13th–16th c.)
Historical term originally used in China and Korea for Japanese pirates who raided the coasts during the 13th to 16th centuries.
倭寇は14世紀に朝鮮半島沿岸を襲った。
The wokou raided the coasts of the Korean Peninsula in the 14th century.
明王朝は倭寇の取り締まりに苦慮した。
The Ming Dynasty struggled to suppress the wokou.
From Chinese 倭寇 (wōkòu), literally 'dwarf bandits', where 倭 was an ancient Chinese name for Japan and 寇 means 'bandit' or 'invader'.