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日本国 （にほんこく、にっぽんこく、 英: Japan ）、または 日本 （にほん、にっぽん）は、 東アジア に位置する 民主制国家 [1] 。. 現在の 首都 は 東京都 [注釈 2] [2] [3] 。. 全長3500キロメートル以上にわたる 国土 は、主に 日本列島 [注釈 6] および 南西諸島 ...
- Língua japonesa
ISO 639-2: jpn. ISO 639-3: jap. A língua japonesa (にほんご ou...
- Universidade Nihon
A Universidade Nihon (日本大学 Nihon Daigaku?, abreviada como 日大...
- Língua japonesa
Ambos são escritos em japonês usando o kanji 日本. O nome japonês Nippon é usado para a maioria dos fins oficiais, inclusive sobre a moeda japonesa, selos postais, e para muitos eventos esportivos internacionais. Nihon é um termo mais casual e o mais usado na linguagem contemporânea.
The name for Japan in Japanese is written using the kanji 日本 and is pronounced Nippon or Nihon. [9] Before 日本 was adopted in the early 8th century, the country was known in China as Wa ( 倭, changed in Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. [10]
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Both Nippon and Nihon literally mean "the sun's origin", that is, where the sun originates, and are often translated as the Land of the Rising Sun. This nomenclature comes from Imperial correspondence with the Chinese Sui Dynasty and refers to Japan's eastern position relative to China. Before Nihon came into official use, Japan was known as Wa(倭) ...
Portuguese missionaries arrived in Japan at the end of the 16th century. In the course of learning Japanese, they created several grammars and dictionaries of Middle Japanese. The 1603–1604 dictionary Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam contains two entries for Japan: nifon and iippon.The title of the dictionary (Vocabulary of the Language of Japan) ill...
The Japanese name for Japan, 日本, can be pronounced either Nihon or Nippon. Both readings come from the on'yomi.
As mentioned above, the English word Japan has a circuitous derivation; but linguists believe it derives in part from the Portuguese recording of the Early Mandarin Chinese or Wu Chinese word for Japan: Cipan (日本), which is rendered in pinyin as Rìběn (IPA: ʐʅ˥˩pən˨˩˦), and literally translates to "sun origin". Guó (IPA: kuo˨˦) is Chinese for "real...
Classical
These names were invented after the introduction of Chinese into the language, and they show up in historical texts for prehistoric legendary dates and also in names of gods and Japanese emperors: 1. Ōyashima (大八洲) meaning the Great Country of Eight (or Many) Islands, Awaji, Iyo (later Shikoku), Oki, Tsukushi (later Kyūshū), Iki, Tsushima, Sado, and Yamato (later Honshū); Hokkaidō, Karafuto, Chishima, and Okinawa were not part of Japan in ancient times, as Aynu Mosir (the northern part of the...
In other Eastern Asian languages
Dōngyáng (東洋) and Dōngyíng (東瀛) – both literally, "Eastern Ocean" – are Chinese terms sometimes used to refer to Japan exotically when contrasting it with other countries or regions in eastern Eurasia; however, these same terms may also be used to refer to all of East Asia when contrasting "the East" with "the West". The first term, Dōngyáng, has been considered to be a pejorative term when used to mean "Japan", while the second, Dōngyíng, has remained a positive poetic name. They can be cont...
Notation on old European maps
These are historic names of Japan that were noted on old maps issued in Europe.
Doi, Tadao (1980) [1603]. Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-080021-3.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric; Käthe Roth (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.
