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Tanizaki

Tanizaki proper noun: a transliteration of the Japanese surname 谷崎.

Proper noun

Tanizaki (plural Tanizakis)

  1. A transliteration of the Japanese surname 谷崎
    • Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, b. 1886
  2. A surname from Japanese.

Forms of Tanizaki

pluralTanizakis

Origin of Tanizaki

Borrowed from Japanese 谷崎.

Questions about Tanizaki

What does Tanizaki mean?
Tanizaki means a transliteration of the Japanese surname 谷崎.
What part of speech is Tanizaki?
Tanizaki is a proper noun.

Words near Tanizaki in the dictionary

  1. Tanith
  2. Tanitic
  3. taniwha
  4. taniwhas
  5. Taniya
  6. Tanizaki
  7. Tanizakis
  8. tanj
  9. Tanja
  10. Tanjay
  11. tanjeb

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