romaji

Alternative forms

• Romaji, Rōmaji, Roma-ji, Rōma-ji, roma-ji, rōmaji
• romanji (nonstandard)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: rō'-mə-jē, rō'-mä-jē, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊməd͡ʒi/, /ɹəʊˈmɑːd͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊməd͡ʒiː, -ɑːd͡ʒi

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.

Anagrams

• Armijo, Morija, mojari

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.ma.ʒi/, /ʁo.ma.dʒi/

• Audio:

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Noun

romaji m (plural romaji or romajis)

1. romaji

Alternative forms

• rōmaji

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English romaji.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɔˈma.d͡ʑi/, /rɔˈma.d͡ʐi/
• Rhymes: -ad͡ʑi, -ad͡ʐi
• Syllabification: ro‧ma‧ji

Noun

romaji n (indeclinable)

1. romaji (representation of Japanese in Latin script)

Further reading

• romaji in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Alternative forms

• rōmaji

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”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ro‧ma‧ji

Noun

romaji m (uncountable)

1. romaji (romanization of Japanese)