English
Pronunciation
enPR|/gīʹjÄnʹ/
IPA|/�ɡaɪ�d�ɪn/
Etymology
From Japanese �人 (����, gaijin), foreigner.
Noun
en-noun|plgaijin|pl2gaijins
- A non-Japanese person.
#*1992, David Pollack, Reading Against Culture, Cornell Press, page 230
#*:And I did not intend to live my life as a gaijin—not merely, like the expatriate, someone by definition permanently out of place but someone unwanted as well.
#*2004, Troy Anderson, The Way of Go, Simon and Schuster, page 149
#*:[...] I was placed in the gaijins' dormitory area up on the third floor.
#*2006, Alan M. Klein, Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball, page 127
#*:Oh's pitchers later acknowledged that they were instructed—under penalty of a fine—to throw no strikes to the gaijin.
Japanese
Noun
ja-noun|r|hira����|hidx����'
- ja-def|�人 foreigner
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