Word Meaning 夷人

いじん ijin

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

Meaning

English

  1. foreigner
  2. barbarian
  3. 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

Max. 12

えびす

peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu)

商人

しょうにん

merchant

一人

ひとり

one person

他人

たにん

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

素人

しろうと

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

無人

むじん

shorthandedness

万人

ばんにん

ten thousand people

国人

こくじん

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

旅人

たびびと

traveller

二人

ふたり

two persons

仲人

なこうど

matchmaker

玄人

くろうと

woman in the nightlife business