若輩

Japanese

Kanji in this term
若	輩

Alternative forms

• Kanji: 弱輩
• Hiragana: じゃくはい
• Katakana: ジャクハイ
• Romaji: jakuhai, zyakuhai; jacufai (obsolete)

Noun

若輩 (hiragana じゃくはい, katakana ジャクハイ, romaji jakuhai)

1. A youth; a young person.
   • 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium, p. 9

     Adoleſcens . moço . jacu fai .

   • 1867: James Curtis Hepburn, A Japanese and English Dictionary, p. 152

     Jaku-hai, ジャクハイ, 若輩, (wakaki tomogara). Young, immature in knowledge or experience, (used also in humbling one’s self.)

Synonyms

• 年少者