romaji

See also: Romaji, rōmaji, and Rōmaji

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: rō'-mə-jē, rō'-mä-jē, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.mə.d͡ʒiː/, /-mɑː-/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3]:

     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.

Hypernyms

• romanization

Coordinate terms

• hiragana
• kanji
• katakana

Related terms

• romaja
• Romajikai

Translations

romanization of Japanese

• Arabic: رُومَاجِي (ar) m (rūmajī, romajī)
• Armenian: ռոմաձի (ṙomaji)
• Azerbaijani: romaci
• Belarusian: ро́мадзі f (rómadzi)
• Bulgarian: ромаджи f (romadži)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: (日語／日语~)羅馬字／罗马字 (zh-min-nan), (日语~)罗马字 (lô-má-lī / lô-má-jī)

  Mandarin: (日語／日语~)羅馬字／罗马字 (zh) (luómǎzì), (日语~)罗马字 (zh) (luómǎzì)

• Czech: rómadži n
• Dutch: romaji (nl) n
• Esperanto: romaĵi, romaĝi
• Finnish: romaji
• French: romaji (fr) m
• Georgian: რომაჯი (romaǯi)
• German: Rōmaji n, Romaji n
• Greek: ρομάτζι (el) n pl (romátzi)
• Hebrew: רוֹמָאגִ׳י m (romají)
• Italian: romaji (it) m, rōmaji (it) m
• Japanese: ローマ字 (ja) (ローマじ, rōmaji)
• Korean: 로마자 (ko) (romaja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: romajî (ku)

• Latvian: rōmadži f
• Lithuanian: romadži f
• Malay:

  Jawi: روماجي (ms)

  Rumi: romaji (ms), Romaji (ms)

• Norwegian: rōmaji (no) m
• Persian: روماجی (româji)
• Polish: romaji (pl) n
• Portuguese: romaji (pt) m, rōmaji (pt) m, romanização do japonês f
• Punjabi: ਰੋਮਾਜੀ m (romājī)
• Russian: ро́мадзи (ru) f (rómadzi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ромаџи n

  Roman: romaji n, romadži n

• Slovak: rómadži n
• Spanish: romaji (es) m
• Thai: โรมะจิ (th) (roo-má-jì), โรมาจิ (th) (roo-maa-jì)
• Ukrainian: ро́мадзі f (rómadzi)
• Urdu: رومن m (roman), روماجی f (romājī)
• Vietnamese: chữ cái Latinh, chữ Latinh

Anagrams

• Armijo, Morija, mojari

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.ma.ʒi/, /ʁo.ma.dʒi/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

romaji m (plural romaji or romajis)

1. romaji

Portuguese

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁo.maˈʒi/ [ho.maˈʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁo.maˈʒi/ [ho.maˈʒi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁo.maˈʒi/ [χo.maˈʒi]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁuˈma.ʒi/, /ʁɔˈma.ʒi/

• Hyphenation: ro‧ma‧ji

Noun

romaji m (uncountable)

1. romaji (romanization of Japanese)

Hypernyms

• romanização