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Nihon
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nihon
English
Etymology
en ja 日本 Nihon. en Nippon Japan.
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Nihon.wav US
Proper noun
en rare Japan.
en David Richardson Exchange student to Nihon! sci.lang.japan https://groups.google.com/g/sci.lang.japan/c/r7y8nuqru4A/m/L__xJDVhvdEJ 2022-06-05 Nov 17, 1993
en Gabriele Schramm places to live in Nihon? soc.culture.japan https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.japan/c/eO_9j4_WBoA/m/S2-qgJkyLCIJ 2022-06-05 Dec 26, 1993
en Rikiya Asano AIDS on the way to Japan soc.culture.japan https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.japan/c/oaw-dPJ3Wwo/m/Leg58Xz8aFQJ 2022-06-01 Jan 16, 1994 It is stooopid and insensative for you to indirectly say that AIDS will come to Nihon via Thailand. AIDS is already in Nihon! And your attempt to make Japanese racists on the incorrect fear that Thailand will bring this disease to Nihon is out of line and very evil which is a characteristic of your race!
en sumimasen... ima nanji desu ka pen pals in nihon? 8) sci.lang.japan https://groups.google.com/g/sci.lang.japan/c/n2zF-TGWd-c/m/Soo0CyBFeecJ 2022-06-05 Feb 5, 1996
en Kurt Pertsch WORKING IN NIHON soc.culture.japan https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.japan/c/zgBlLiE-ASc/m/9r01iIbYZNsJ 2022-06-05 Feb 25, 1996
en mtfe...@netmapsonscape.net Back from Nihon fj.life.in-japan https://groups.google.com/g/fj.life.in-japan/c/ZhTRYxBu4Yc/m/stlUyliTCe8J 2022-06-05 Aug 1, 2010
en IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 w:IUPAC https://iupac.org/iupac-announces-the-names-of-the-elements-113-115-117-and-118/ 2016-11-30 The name nihonium with the symbol Nh for element 113 was proposed by the discoverers at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (Japan); the name came from Nihon which is one of the two ways to say “Japan” in Japanese, and literally mean “the Land of Rising Sun”. https://web.archive.org/web/20260916100059/https://iupac.org/iupac-announces-the-names-of-the-elements-113-115-117-and-118/ 16 September 2026
Related terms
en Nihongo
en Countries in Asia Islands Japan
Cornish
Etymology
kw ja 日本 Nihon. kw Japan.
Proper noun
kw propn
kw Japan Q17
kw Japan
Derived terms
kw ethbys Nihon<t:fatsi> keuspren Nihon<t:Japanese cheesewood> klethra Nihon<t:Japanese clethra> mahonya Nihon<t:mahonia> nihonek<t:Japanese><pos:a> Nihonek<t:Japanese language><pos:n>
Japanese
Romanization
にほん