Dictionary

romaji en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹəʊməd͡ʒi/
• rō'-mä-jē
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹəʊˈmɑːd͡ʒi/
• rō'-mə-jē

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A representation of Japanese in Latin script.
   • For example, in Japanese advertisements sexy and my house often appear in romaji, making the underlying concepts of eroticism and private ownership more exotic. 2006, Ralph Fasold, Jeffrey Connor-Linton, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, page 410:
   • 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. 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:
   • 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. 1977, Anthropology, volume 1, page 173:
   • The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”.

Forms

Coordinates

kanji · katakana · hiragana

Hypernyms

romanization

Relateds

Romajikai · romaja

Translations (52)

fr romaji (romanization of Japanese) · eo romaĝi (romanization of Japanese) · it rōmaji (romanization of Japanese) · it romaji (romanization of Japanese) · vi chữ Latinh (romanization of Japanese) · ms Romaji (romanization of Japanese) · ka რომაჯი (romanization of Japanese) · be ро́мадзі (romanization of Japanese) · de Romaji (romanization of Japanese) · de Rōmaji (romanization of Japanese) · ja ローマ字 (romanization of Japanese) · pt rōmaji (romanization of Japanese) · sh romadži (romanization of Japanese) · sh ромаџи (romanization of Japanese) · az romaci (romanization of Japanese) · fi romaji (romanization of Japanese) · sk rómadži (romanization of Japanese) · cs rómadži (romanization of Japanese) · lt romadži (romanization of Japanese) · hy ռոմաձի (romanization of Japanese) · nan-hbl (日语~)罗马字 (romanization of Japanese) · ur روماجی (romanization of Japanese) · ru ро́мадзи (romanization of Japanese) · th โรมาจิ (romanization of Japanese) · th โรมะจิ (romanization of Japanese) · cmn (日語 /日语~)羅馬字 /罗马字 (romanization of Japanese) · nl romaji (romanization of Japanese) · ms romaji (romanization of Japanese) · ko 로마자 (romanization of Japanese) · hi रोमनीकृत जापानी (romanization of Japanese) · pl romaji (romanization of Japanese) · cmn (日语~)罗马字 (romanization of Japanese) · he רוֹמָאגִ׳י (romanization of Japanese) · kmr romajî (romanization of Japanese) · uk ро́мадзі (romanization of Japanese) · ur رومن (romanization of Japanese) · hi रोमाजी (romanization of Japanese) · bg ромаджи (romanization of Japanese) · es romaji (romanization of Japanese) · nan-hbl (日語 /日语~)羅馬字 /罗马字 (romanization of Japanese) · sh romaji (romanization of Japanese) · ar رُومَاجِي (romanization of Japanese) · el ρομάτζι (romanization of Japanese) · pa ਰੋਮਾਜੀ (romanization of Japanese) · ms روماجي (romanization of Japanese) · lv rōmadži (romanization of Japanese) · no rōmaji (romanization of Japanese) · pt romaji (romanization of Japanese) · pt romanização do japonês (romanization of Japanese) · fa روماجی (romanization of Japanese) · vi chữ cái Latinh (romanization of Japanese) · eo romaĵi (romanization of Japanese)