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In situations where both the first and last names are spoken, the suffix is attached to whichever comes last in the word order. Japanese names traditionally follow the Eastern name order. An honorific is generally used when referring to the person one is talking to (one's interlocutor), or when
Scholars also gave themselves scholarly names, often using the Chinese reading of the characters of their Japanese name. People who entered religious orders adopted religious names. Death added to the number of a person's names. When a person died, their personal name was referred to as an imina (諱) and was no longer used.
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Japanese uses honorific constructions to show or emphasize social rank, social intimacy or similarity in rank. The choice of pronoun used, for example, will express the social relationship between the person speaking and the person being referred to, and Japanese often avoids pronouns entirely in favor of more explicit titles or kinship terms.
Gaijin (外人, [ɡai(d)ʑiɴ]; 'outsider, alien') is a Japanese word for foreigners and non-Japanese citizens in Japan, specifically being applied to foreigners of non-Japanese ethnicity and those from the Japanese diaspora who are not Japanese citizens. [1] The word is composed of two kanji: gai (外, 'outside') and jin (人, 'person').
Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at. The position of things (far away, nearby) and their role in the current interaction (goods, addresser, addressee , bystander) are features of the meaning ...
The name is traditionally analysed as a tripartite compound of kor ("butterbur plant"), pok ("under, below"), and kur ("person") and interpreted to mean "people below the leaves of the Fuki" in the Ainu language. The Ainu believe that the korpokkur were the people who lived in the Ainu land before the Ainu themselves lived there. They were ...
Akira Arimura (有村 章, 1923–2007), Japanese endocrinologist, biochemist, physiologist, and professor; Akira Asada (浅田 彰, born 1957), Japanese art critic and curator; Akira Asahara (浅原 晃), Japanese Magic: The Gathering player; Akira Back (born 1974), Korean-American chef; Akira Chen (born 1969), Taiwanese actor and film director