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Nihon

Nihon proper noun: japan.

Proper noun

Nihon

  1. (rare) Japan.
    • 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...1994 January 16, Rikiya Asano, “AIDS on the way to Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022
    • 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”.2016 November 30, “IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118”, in IUPAC

Origin of Nihon

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

Questions about Nihon

What does Nihon mean?
Nihon means japan.
What part of speech is Nihon?
Nihon is a proper noun.

Words near Nihon in the dictionary

  1. nihilities
  2. nihility
  3. nihils
  4. NIHL
  5. Nihoa
  6. Nihon
  7. Nihonbashi
  8. nihonga
  9. Nihonglish
  10. Nihongo
  11. nihonium

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