Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nihon

/nˈɪhɑn/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables: ni-hon
IPA: /nˈɪhɑn/

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Example Sentences

"It is stooopid and insensative for you to indirectly say that AIDS will come to Nihon via Thailand. AIDS is already in Nihon! And your attempt to make Japanese racists on the incorrect fear that Thailand will bring this disease to Nihon is out of line and very evil which is a characteristic of your race!"
"The name nihonium with the symbol Nh for element 113 was proposed by the discoverers at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (Japan); the name came from Nihon which is one of the two ways to say “Japan” in Japanese, and literally mean “the Land of Rising Sun”."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 日本 (Nihon). Doublet of Nippon and Japan.

Frequently Paired Words

Nihongo

Questions

How do you pronounce nihon?: The recorded pronunciation is /nˈɪhɑn/.
What does nihon mean?: Japan.
Where does nihon come from?: Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 日本 (Nihon). Doublet of Nippon and Japan.

How to pronounce nihon

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