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Yayoi

Yayoi noun: an ethnic group of the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BCE–300 CE).

Noun

Yayoi pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) An ethnic group of the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BCE–300 CE).

Proper noun

Yayoi

  1. A female given name from Japanese.

Origin of Yayoi

From Japanese 弥生.

Questions about Yayoi

What does Yayoi mean?
Yayoi means an ethnic group of the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BCE–300 CE).
What part of speech is Yayoi?
Yayoi can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Yayoi in the dictionary

  1. Yayantique
  2. yayas
  3. Yayati
  4. yayness
  5. yayo
  6. Yayoi
  7. yayoisaponin
  8. yays
  9. yayue
  10. yayuh
  11. Yazan

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