Etymology

kibei

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Today it means: A Japanese-American who is born in the United States but primarily educated in Japan. Full definition →

Japanese 帰米
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from帰米“returning to the United States”
  2. English todaykibei

Borrowed from Japanese 帰米 (kibei, “returning to the United States”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.