アメリカ人

Japanese
Kanji in this term
人
じん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of アメリカ (Amerika, “America”) +‎ 人 (-jin, “person”).

First cited to a text from circa 1870.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) アメリカ​じん [àméríkáꜜjìǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠me̞ɾʲika̠ʑĩɴ]

Noun

アメリカ人(じん) • (Amerika-jin) 

  1. American person

Synonyms

References
  1. “アメリカ‐じん 【─人】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) Paid subscription required‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
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