人外
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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人 | 外 |
じん Grade: 1 |
がい Grade: 2 |
on'yomi |
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]人外 or 人外 • (jingai) ←じんぐわい (zingwai) or ジングワイ (zingwai)?
- the middle of nowhere; a deserted place
- inhuman characteristics
- (fiction) character who is not human
- (derogatory) foreign origin
- 2000 August 10, Yūma Andō with Asaki, Masashi, “BREAK.39 痛恨の国光‥ [Break 39: When Kunimitsu Has Remorse...]”, in サイコメトラーEIJI [Psychometrer Eiji], volume 24 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:
Usage notes
[edit]- This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as ジンガイ.
Anagrams
[edit]- 外人 (gaijin)
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