In Japanese, 私立 means 'private' and 市立 means 'public, city-owned', both are pronounced shiritsu. Is such a troublesome phenomenon common? Does it have a name?
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see autoantonym. They might have a category for those, too.
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2There is a category en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Contranyms_by_language and also en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_contranyms– J-msterJun 2, 2019 at 9:30