gaijin

Definitions

1. A non-Japanese person.
2. A white person.
   Hawaii

Equivalents

3 more languages

日本語外人

한국어외인

Polskigaijin

Examples

“The peculiar position of his group, according to Mr. Okimoto, is shown by the Japanese habit of referring to such persons as either nisei or nikkeijin —of Japanese descent—instead of calling them gaijin, that is, foreigners, or identifying them by nationality.”

“For a while he began to speak⟳ Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn⟳ it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner.”

“The sarariman had been Japanese, but the Ninsei crowd was a gaijin crowd.”

“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.”

“[...] I was placed in the gaijins' dormitory area up on the third floor.”

“Oh's pitchers later acknowledged that they were instructed—under penalty of a fine—to throw⟳ no strikes to the gaijin.”

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