How haikus work in other languages

Question

I’ve always been taught that haikus have 5-7-5 syllables, but what about in other languages that have a different sentence structure? Do they retain the 5-7-5 or are haikus different altogether?

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Answer 1

Haikus are haikus. They don’t change just because it is in another language. The original language for a haiku is Japanese.