japanese
/ˌdʒæp.əˈniːz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.81 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the predominant ethnic group of Japan, also found throughout the world in diaspora.
Countable
name
A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.
Example Sentences
- "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 that is very Japanese."
- "Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition."
- "As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night."
- "The Ainu were subject to forced assimilation by the Japanese since at least the 18th century."
Etymology
Etymology tree Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún)bor. 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: japonês, japonensis