romaji

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See also: Romaji, rōmaji, and Rōmaji

English

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Etymology

Transliteration from Japanese ローマ字(じ) (rōmaji, literally “Roman letters”).

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Noun

romaji (countable and uncountable, plural romajis)

  1. A representation of Japanese in Latin script.
    The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”.
    • 1977, Anthropology‎, 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, 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:
      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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French

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɔ.ma.ʒi/, /ʁo.ma.dʒi/
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Noun

romaji m (plural romaji or romajis)

  1. romaji

Portuguese

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Etymology

Unadapted 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”).

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  • Hyphenation: ro‧ma‧ji

Noun

romaji m (uncountable)

  1. romaji (romanization of Japanese)

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