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The word has come to be used to mean one particular kind of "adorable", one specific type of "cute", mainly as applied to fictional characters. Moe does not have one concrete definition, but rather has a variety of meanings. People use Moe to mean a particular feeling or characteristic. The term "moe" can be added onto the end of any personality trait or physical trait to create a new type of moe. According to the Japan Society and Patrick W. Galbraith it means - a rarefied, a euphoric response to fantasy characters or representations of them[1][2] - however, one of the most famous instances of moe has been in response to the drama version of a living person.[3] It is a pun derived from a Japanese word that literally means "budding," as with a plant that is about to flower, and thus it can also be used to mean "budding" as with a preadolescent girl.[4] Since this word is also a homonym for "burning" pronounced moe (燃え?), there is also speculation that the word stems from the burning passion felt for the characters.[5]