Nihon

N1I1H4O1N1

proper noun

Japan.

OriginJapanese 日本 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. rareJapan.
    1 more example

    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!

    1994 January 16, Rikiya Asano, “AIDS on the way to Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
japan

Origin

  1. Japanese日本
  2. EnglishNihon

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 日本 (Nihon). Doublet of Nippon and Japan.

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Cite this entry
APA

Nihon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nihon

MLA

“Nihon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nihon. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Nihon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nihon.

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