ローマ字
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JapaneseEdit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 字 |
| じ Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi |
EtymologyEdit
ローマ (“Rome, Roman”) + 字 (“character”).
Note that it is not ×ローマン字 (rōmanji) – ローマ is from Portuguese, not English; this is an easy mistake for English speakers to make. Compare however ローマン体, which does use ‘n’, because that word is borrowed from English.
PronunciationEdit
- (Tokyo) ローマじ [ròómájí] (Heiban - [0])[1][2][3]
- (Tokyo) ローマじ [ròómáꜜjì] (Nakadaka - [3])[1][2][3]
- IPA(key): [ɾo̞ːma̠ʑi]
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NounEdit
ローマ字 (hiragana and katakana ローマじ, rōmaji rōmaji)
- Latin alphabet
- romaji (Japanese written in the standard 26-character latin script).
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0