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Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
Words of Japanese origin have entered many languages. Some words are simple transliterations of Japanese language words for concepts inherent to Japanese culture. The words on this page are an incomplete list of words which are listed in major English dictionaries and whose etymologies include Japanese.
Wasei-eigo is distinct from Engrish, the misuse or corruption of the English language by native Japanese speakers, as it consists of words used in Japanese conversation, not an attempt at speaking English. [6] These include acronyms and initialisms particular to Japan (see list of Japanese Latin alphabetic abbreviations).
The American missionary James Curtis Hepburn edited A Japanese and English Dictionary with an English and Japanese Index (和英語林集成, Shanghai, American Presbyterian Press, 1867), with 20,722 Japanese-English and 10,030 English-Japanese words, on 702 pages. Although designed to be used by missionaries in Japan, this first Japanese ...
Kenkyusha's New English-Japanese Dictionary and Japanese-English Dictionary English-Japanese Dictionary 7th edition and Japanese-English Dictionary 5th edition iOS version (研究社新英和（第7版）和英（第5版）中辞典 音声付き) [6] Version 2.0.1 (2009-07-07, iOS 3.0 and later) Version 2.0.2 (2009-09-02) Version 2.0.3 (2009-11-02)
Weblio can perform a bulk search on a variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias and glossaries, and return results. The dictionary facility includes Kenkyūsha's New Japanese-English Dictionary and 70 other Japanese–English and English–Japanese dictionaries with 4,160,000 English words and 4,730,000 Japanese words. [2]
A speaker of only English should not need to know Japanese in order to speak English words! Also, citing "Anglocentrism" when dealing with the English language is quite amusing! -- Миборовский U|T|C|M| E |Chugoku Banzai! 00:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC) If it appears in an English dictionary, then it's an English word. Period.
The Sanseidō kokugo jiten (三省堂国語辞典, Sanseido's Japanese Dictionary), or the Sankoku (三国) for short, is a general-purpose Japanese dictionary. It is closely affiliated with another contemporary dictionary published by Sanseidō, the Shin Meikai kokugo jiten. The Sanseidō kokugo jiten has been revised about once a decade.