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kakure kirishitan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kakure kirishi-tan
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period who went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 隠れキリシタン (Kakure Kirishitan, literally “hidden Christian”).

Inflected Forms

Kakure Kirishitans (plural)

Questions

What does kakure kirishitan mean?
A member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period who went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.
Where does kakure kirishitan come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 隠れキリシタン (Kakure Kirishitan, literally “hidden Christian”).

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