romaji

Borrowed 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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊmədʒɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊmədʒi/

romaji (plural romaji)

1. A representation of Japanese in Latin script.

   The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”.

   • 1977, Anthropology‎, 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, 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:

     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.

• romanization

• hiragana
• kanji
• katakana

• romaja
• Romajikai

• Armijo, Morija, mojari

• rōmaji

Borrowed 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”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁomaˈʒi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁumɐˈʒi/

romaji m (uncountable)

1. romaji (romanization of Japanese)

• romanização