Japanese
/ˌdʒæp.əˈniːz/
Japanese adjective: of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture. Also the ellipsis of Japanese food.
Adjective
Japanese (comparative more Japanese, superlative most Japanese)
Noun
Japanese (countable and uncountable, plural Japanese or Japaneses)
- A native or inhabitant of Japan.
- Motoyuki Shibata isn’t a typical Japanese.2007 October 16, Madeleine Brand, “Japan Struggles to Meet Its CO2 Emissions Limits”, Day to Day, National Public Radio
- […] the majority of Japanese voted to return the conservative Liberal Democratic Party to power after the 3/11 disaster.2019, Koichi Haga, The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in ..., page 82
- A member of the predominant ethnic group of Japan, also found throughout the world in diaspora.
- A Japanese will typically have black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin.
- […] 90 percent of Japanese [in Hawaii] voted Democratic (Coffman 2003: 278).2016, Michael Haas, How to Demolish Racism: Lessons from the State of Hawai'i, page 100
Proper noun
Japanese
- A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.
- I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!
- What Japanese you speak also depends on your gender. There’s a “rough” language for men and a more “ladylike” language for women, but you must understand both.2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022
Also used as
Japanese is also the ellipsis of Japanese food.
Japanese meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Japanese in Hindi
- of or relating to Japan
- जापानी jāpānī
- person from Japan
- जापानी jāpānī
- Japanese language
- जापानी jāpānī, जापानी भाषा jāpānī bhāṣā
Japanese in Tamil
- Japanese language
- ஜப்பானிய மொழி jappāṉiya moḻi
Japanese in Marathi
- of or relating to Japan
- जापानी jāpānī
- Japanese language
- जापानी jāpānī
Japanese in Urdu
- of or relating to Japan
- جاپانی jāpānī
- person from Japan
- جاپانی jāpānī
- Japanese language
- جاپانی jāpānī
More languagesFewer languages
- Japanese in Bengali
- জাপানি japani, জাপানি ভাষা japani bhaśa
- Japanese in Telugu
- జపనీసు japanīsu
- Japanese in Malayalam
- ജാപ്പനീസ് jāppanīsŭ
- Japanese in Gujarati
- જાપાની ભાષા jāpānī bhāṣā
- Japanese in Sinhala
- ජපන් japan, ජපන් භාෂාව japan bhāṣāwa
- Japanese in Pashto
- جاپانی ǰāpānáy
- Japanese in Tagalog
- Hapon, Hapones
- Japanese in Arabic
- يَابَانِيّ yābāniyy, يَابَانِيَّة yābāniyya, اَلْيَابَانِيَّة al-yābāniyya
- Japanese in Malay
- Jepun, orang Jepun, bahasa Jepun
- Japanese in Indonesian
- Jepang, orang Jepang, bahasa Jepang
- Japanese in Persian
- ژاپنی žâponi, زبان ژاپنی zabân-e žâponi
- Japanese in Thai
- ญี่ปุ่น yîi-bpùn, คนญี่ปุ่น kon yîi-bpùn, ภาษาญี่ปุ่น paa-sǎa yîi-bpùn
- Japanese in Vietnamese
- Nhật, thuộc Nhật, người Nhật, tiếng Nhật
- Japanese in Myanmar
- ဂျပန် gya.pan
Synonyms of Japanese
Forms of Japanese
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Japanese |
| superlative | most Japanese |
| Noun | |
| plural | Japanese |
| plural | Japaneses |
Origin of Japanese
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
Words formed from Japanese
- anti-Japanese
- Hall's Japanese honeysuckle
- Japanese amberjack
- Japanese apricot
- Japanese archipelago
- Japanese ash
- Japanese aspen
- Japanese azalea
- Japanese barberry
- Japanese bear
- Japanese beech
- Japanese black bear
- Japanese Bobtail
- Japanese bunching onion
- Japanese bush warbler
- Japanese cake
- Japanese chestnut
- Japanese climbing fern
- Japanese clock
- Japanese clover
- Japanese crab
- Japanese crested ibis
- Japanese deer
- Japanese dogwood
- Japanese dormouse
- Japanese earth
- Japanese encephalitis
- Japanese English
- Japanese fever
- Japanese flood fever
- Japanese full stop
- Japanese giant salamander
- Japanese holly
- Japanese honeysuckle
- Japanese iris
- Japanese ivy
- Japanese knotweed
- Japanese lacquer tree
- Japanese lantern
- Japanese lilac
- Japanese millet
- Japanese monkey
- Japanese nightingale
- Japanese pagoda tree
- Japanese pampas grass
- Japanese peanut
- Japanese pear
- Japanese pheasant
- Japanese pine
- Japanese pond smelt
- Japanese river fever
- Japanese rose
- Japanese scallop
- Japanese sea bass
- Japanese sea lion
- Japanese shield fern
- Japanese silkmoth
- Japanese slipper
- Japanese smelt
- Japanese spiny lobster
Phrases with Japanese
- Japanese eel
- Japanese hop
- Japanese tit
- Japanese wax
- Japanese yew
- Old Japanese
- Japanese dace
- Japanese eels
- Japanese feet
- Japanese foot
- Japanese hops
- Japanese mole
135 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Japanese plum
- Japanese tits
- Japanese wolf
- Japanese yews
- Japanese bears
- Japanese Black
- Japanese cakes
- Japanese cedar
- Japanese chess
- Japanese crabs
- Japanese crane
- Japanese curry
- Japanese daces
- Japanese ivies
- Japanese maple
- Japanese moles
- Japanese paper
- Japanese pears
- Japanese pines
- Japanese pizza
- Japanese plums
- Japanese robin
- Japanese roses
- Japanese spitz
- Japanese sumac
- Japanese aralia
- Japanese beetle
- Japanese cedars
- Japanese clocks
- Japanese cranes
- Japanese Empire
- Japanese ginger
- Japanese irises
- Japanese lilacs
- Japanese maples
- Japanese marten
- Japanese medlar
- Japanese nutmeg
- Japanese papers
- Japanese pizzas
- Japanese quince
- Japanese radish
- Japanese robins
- Japanese spurge
- Japanese squash
- Japanese sumacs
- Japanese tissue
- Japanese weasel
- Japanese wolves
- Middle Japanese
- Modern Japanese
- Japanese anemone
- Japanese aralias
- Japanese beeches
- Japanese beetles
- Japanese cypress
- Japanese dormice
- Japanese macaque
- Japanese martens
- Japanese medlars
- Japanese millets
- Japanese monkeys
- Japanese nutmegs
- Japanese peanuts
- Japanese pumpkin
- Japanese quinces
- Japanese spindle
- Japanese spitzes
- Japanese studies
- Japanese theorem
- Japanese wagtail
- Japanese weasels
- Imperial Japanese
- Japanese anemones
- Japanese apricots
- Japanese bayberry
- Japanese Bobtails
- Japanese dogwoods
- Japanese grosbeak
- Japanese halfbeak
- Japanese lanterns
- Japanese macaques
- Japanese mandolin
- Japanese pumpkins
- Japanese radishes
- Japanese seaperch
- Japanese slippers
- Japanese spindles
- Japanese squirrel
- Japanese wagtails
- Classical Japanese
- Japanese andromeda
- Japanese arrowroot
- Japanese chestnuts
- Japanese grosbeaks
- Japanese halfbeaks
- Japanese mandoline
- Japanese mandolins
- Japanese persimmon
- Japanese pheasants
- Japanese rice ball
- Japanese sea lions
- Japanese sea perch
- Japanese spikenard
- Japanese squirrels
- Japanese stewartia
- Japanese amberjacks
- Japanese andromedas
- Japanese bayberries
- Japanese mandolines
- Japanese maple tree
- Japanese needlefish
- Japanese persimmons
- Japanese rice balls
- Japanese spikenards
- Japanese stiltgrass
- Japanese tree lilac
- Japanese black bears
- Japanese horseradish
- Japanese maple trees
- Japanese night heron
- Japanese sparrowhawk
- Japanese tree lilacs
- Japanese cherry birch
- Japanese crucian carp
- Japanese flying squid
- Japanese giant hornet
- Japanese mountain yam
- Japanese needlefishes
- Japanese night herons
- Japanese nightingales
- Japanese pagoda trees
- Japanese snake blenny
- Japanese sparrowhawks
- Japanese sweet potato
Words that rhyme with Japanese
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about Japanese
- What does Japanese mean?
- Japanese means of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
- What is Japanese in Hindi?
- Japanese in Hindi is जापानी (jāpānī), जापानी भाषा (jāpānī bhāṣā). See Japanese meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Japanese?
- Japanese can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Japanese?
- Japanese is pronounced /ˌdʒæp.əˈniːz/.
Words near Japanese in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Japanese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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