noun
romaji
Romaji (noun) means a way of writing the Japanese language using the Latin alphabet.
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A way of writing the Japanese language using the Latin alphabet.
"The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”."
"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."
— Anthropology (1977)
"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."
— T Okadome, An Accessible Coded Input Method for Japanese Extensive Writing (2011)
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Etymology
A transliteration of Japanese ローマ字(じ) (rōmaji), literally “Roman letters”.
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"romaji" (noun) means a way of writing the Japanese language using the Latin alphabet.
