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Yasui

Yasui proper noun: a surname from Japanese.

Proper noun

Yasui (plural Yasuis)

  1. A surname from Japanese.
    • Minoru Yasui was a trained army officer with a legal education who worked in the Japanese consular office.2012, Karen Latchana Kenney, Korematsu v. the United States: World War II Japanese-American Internment Camps, ABDO Publishing Company, 89

Forms of Yasui

pluralYasuis

Origin of Yasui

Borrowed from Japanese 安井 or 安居 (Yasui).

Questions about Yasui

What does Yasui mean?
Yasui means a surname from Japanese.
What part of speech is Yasui?
Yasui is a proper noun.

Words near Yasui in the dictionary

  1. Yastrebov
  2. Yasuda
  3. Yasudas
  4. Yasugi
  5. Yasuhiro
  6. Yasui
  7. Yasuis
  8. Yasuj
  9. Yasuko
  10. Yasuo
  11. Yasushi

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