romaji
English
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editEtymology
editTransliteration from Japanese ローマ字 (rōmaji, literally “Roman letters”).
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: rō'-mə-jē, rō'-mä-jē, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊməd͡ʒi/, /ɹəʊˈmɑːd͡ʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊməd͡ʒiː, -ɑːd͡ʒi
Noun
editromaji (countable and uncountable, plural romajis)
- A representation of Japanese in Latin script.
- The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”.
- 1977, Anthropology[1], volume 1, page 173:
- The katakana and the hiragana are syllabic forms of writing derived from Chinese characters, while the romaji are the letters used in writing most European languages.
- 2006, Ralph Fasold, Jeffrey Connor-Linton, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics[2], page 410:
- For example, in Japanese advertisements sexy and my house often appear in romaji, making the underlying concepts of eroticism and private ownership more exotic.
- 2011, T Okadome, J Nakajima, S Ito, K Kakusho, “An Accessible Coded Input Method for Japanese Extensive Writing”, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods[3]:
- Today people ordinarily use kana-kanji conversion systems for inputting Japanese text. Because many of them can touch-type the romajis for the kanas, the O-code with kana-kanji conversion is more accessible.
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editTranslations
editromanization of Japanese
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editNoun
editromaji m (plural romaji or romajis)
Portuguese
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editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Japanese ローマ字 (ローマじ, rōmaji, literally “Roman letters”), from ローマ (Rōma, “Rome, Roman”) + 字 (じ, ji, “letter, character”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ro‧ma‧ji
Noun
editromaji m (uncountable)
- romaji (romanization of Japanese)
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