外人
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[edit] Japanese
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| 外 | 人 |
[edit] Etymology 1
/gwaizin/ > /gaizin/ [gaidʑin]. Literally outside person. From the late 19th on also used as an abbreviation for gaikokujin.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡaidʑin/
[edit] Noun
外人 (hiragana がいじん, romaji gaijin, historical hiragana ぐゎいじん)
- outsider; an estranged, unfamiliar person
- 995-999: Fusōshū (volume 9; Gunsho Ruijū volume 8, page 578)
- 口畔懸河渉漢深。春杉拭盞就花陰。外人傾耳猶添愛、況是堂中父母心。
- c. 13th century: Heike Monogatari (volume 1, page 123)
- しかるに其恩をわすれて、外人もなき所に兵具をとゝのへ、軍兵をかたらひをき、其營みの他は他事なし。
- c. 1349: Renri Hishō (page 38)
- 但、外人など上手おほからむ座にては、聊か斟酌すべし
- 1597: Ekirin Setsuyōshū (page 133)
- 外人 (グワイジン)
- 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho (page 314)
- Guaijin, グヮイジン(外人) Focano fito. (他の人) 他国の人、すなわち、土着の人ではない者.
- 1617: Gennabon Kagakushū (page 73)
- 外人 (グワイジン) 他人也
- 995-999: Fusōshū (volume 9; Gunsho Ruijū volume 8, page 578)
- an abbreviation for 外国人; a person from a foreign country; an alien, a foreign national; a person who is not Japanese
- 1875: 文明論之概略 (page 18)
- 譬えば頑固なる士民は外国人を悪むを以て常とせり。又学者流の人にても少しく見識ある者は外人の挙動を見て決して心酔するに非ず,之を悦ばざるの心は彼の頑民に異なることなしと云うも可なり。
- 1875: 文明論之概略 (page 18)
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Etymology 2
Adjective utoi (“unacquainted”) in attributive form and hito (“person”).
[edit] Noun
外人 (hiragana うときひと, romaji utoki hito)
- an estranged, unfamiliar person
- c. 11th century: Ruiju Myōgishō
- 外人ウトキ人
- c. 11th century: Ruiju Myōgishō
[edit] Related terms
- 外人記者 (gaijinkisha)
- 外人選手 (gaijinsenshu)
- 外人部隊 (gaijinbutai)
- 外人向き (gaijimmuki)
- 外人向け (gaijimmuke)
- 内外人 (naigaijin)
- 不良外人 (furyōgaijin)
[edit] References
- 1980 January 23 [1603–1604], Doi, Tadao, Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0008-0021-3:
- 1995 January 23 [1875], Fukuzawa, Yukichi, Bunmeiron no Gairyaku, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-331021-7:
- 1960 January 23, Hanawa, Hokiichi, Gunsho Ruijū, volume 8, Tōkyō: Zoku Gunsho Ruijū Kanseikai:
- 1944 January 23 [1617], Kamei, Takashi, Kagakushū: Gennabon, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten:
- 1961, Kidō, Saizō; Imoto Nōichi, Iwanami Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei: Renga Ronshū, Haironshū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-060066-4:
- 1959 January 23, Takagi, Ichinosuke; Masao Ozawa, Kaoru Atsumi, Haruhiko Kindaichi, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 32: Heike Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-060032-X:
- 1985 January 23 [995-999], Tasaka, Junko, Fusōshū: Kōhon to Sakuin, Fukuoka: Tōka Shobō:
- 2006 January 23 [1597], Fukkoku Nihon Koten Zenshū: Setsuyōshū, Tōkyō: Gendai Shichō Shinsha, ISBN 4-329-02519-1:
[edit] Mandarin
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[edit] Noun
外人 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin wàirén)
- outsider; stranger
- non-family member