Japanese
Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
Adjective
- Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
- A Japanese saw is one that cuts on the pull stroke rather than on the push stroke.
- In the United States, Japanese animation has had a tremendous surge in popularity over the last few years.
- Then, as I walked back to the Miyako Hybrid, the snow-white hotel, with its perfectly black parking lot and perfectly trimmed palm trees, looked more like a computer rendering of a building than a building itself. And...
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Of or relating to the Yamato people.
- The Ainu were subject to forced assimilation by the Japanese since at least the 18th century.
Origin
Etymology tree Hokkien 日本 /Ji̍t-púnbor. Malay Jepangbor. Portuguese Japãobor. ▲ Malay Jepangbor. Dutch Japanbor. English Japan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Japanese From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
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Proper noun
- A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.
- I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!
- What Japanese you speak also depends on your gender. There’s a “rough” language for men and a more “ladylike” language for women, but you must understand both. - 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are...
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Japan Japanophile Nipponize Jap Wiktionary’s coverage of Japanese terms
Derived
anti-Japanese Hall's Japanese honeysuckle Japanese amberjack Japanese apricot Japanese archipelago Japanese barberry Japanese bear Japanese beech Japanese black bear Japanese Bobtail Japanese bunching onion Japanese bush warbler Japanese cake Japanese chestnut Japanese climbing fern Japanese clock Japanese clover Japanese crab Japanese crested ibis Japanese deer Japanese dogwood Japanese dormouse Japanese earth Japanese encephalitis
Noun
- A native or inhabitant of Japan.
- 2007 October 16, Madeleine Brand, “Japan Struggles to Meet Its CO2 Emissions Limits”, Day to Day, National Public Radio, Motoyuki Shibata isn’t a typical Japanese.
- […] the majority of Japanese voted to return the conservative Liberal Democratic Party to power after the 3/11 disaster. - 2019, Koichi Haga, The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in ..., page 82
- A member of the predominant ethnic group of Japan, also found throughout the world in diaspora.
- A Japanese will typically have black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin.
- […] 90 percent of Japanese [in Hawaii] voted Democratic (Coffman 2003: 278). - 2016, Michael Haas, How to Demolish Racism: Lessons from the State of Hawai'i, page 100
- Ellipsis of Japanese food.
- Let’s go out to eat. I’m in the mood for Japanese.