Word Meaning 夷人

いじん ijin

夷人 is read as いじん (ijin) and means foreigner.

Meaning

English

foreigner
barbarian
savage

Reading

Kana

いじん

Romaji

ijin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 8 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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夷

えびす

brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan)

商人

あきうど

merchant

小人

こども

child

素人

しらびと

respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha)

一人

ひとり

one person

夫人

ふじん

consort of the emperor

他人

ひと

unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood)

無人

ぶにん

shorthandedness

万人

ばんじん

ten thousand people

国人

くにうど

daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

旅人

たびと

traveller

二人

ににん

two persons