異国人

Japanese

Kanji in this term
異	国	人
い Grade: 6	こく Grade: 2	じん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
異國人 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

異国 (ikoku, “foreign country”) +‎ 人 (jin, “person”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いこくじん [ìkókúꜜjìǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [iko̞kɯ̟ʑĩɴ]

Noun

異(い)国(こく)人(じん) • (ikokujin)

a person from a foreign country; an alien, a foreign national, a foreigner; a person who is not Japanese
- 1603-1604, Nippo Jisho, page 329:
  Icocujin. イコクジン外国人、あるいは、他国の人
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Doi, Tadao (1980) [1603-1604] Hōyaku Nippo Jisho, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN