sansei

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 三世

Noun

sansei (plural sanseis or sansei)

1. A US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America.
   • 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience,” in Harold Coward and Leslie S. Kawamura eds., Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p 66:

     Under these circumstances it may not be unexpected to have the "assimilationist Sansei" protest that he is not a Japanese-Canadian; he is a Canadian, period. None of this hyphenated stuff.

See also

• issei
• nisei

References

• “sansei”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Inessa, Saines, anesis, anises, asines, sanies

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Japanese

Romanization

sansei

1. Rōmaji transcription of さんせい