nisei

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Japanese 二世 (にせい, nisei), from 二 (ni-) ‘second’ + 世 (sei) ‘generation’.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈniseɪ/

Noun [edit]

nisei (plural nisei)

  1. an American whose parents were Japanese immigrants
    • 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
      Decrypts fly out of a line printer on the other end and are taken off to another hut where American nisei, and some white men trained in Nipponese, translate them.

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Romanization [edit]

nisei

  1. See にせい
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