がいじん – Vocabulary details

がいじん

Meanings

Noun

Sensitive

1. foreigner (esp. a Westerner); gaijin

2. outsider

orig. meaning

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

が

いじん

Composed of

がい

outside ...; beyond ...; not included in ...

じん

-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person

Used in vocabulary (8 in total)

がいじんぶたい

foreign legion

がいじんぼち

foreign cemetery (in Japan); cemetery for Westerners

ないがいじん

nationals and foreigners

ふりょうがいじん

delinquent foreigner; foreign hoodlum

がいじんきしゃ

foreign correspondent

がいじんコンプレックス

foreigner complex; (supposed) Japanese feeling of inferiority towards foreigners (particularly Westerners)

けんがいじん

person from outside the prefecture; people from other prefectures

がいじんハンター

gaijin hunter; (Japanese) person attracted to foreigners

Examples (6 in total)

がいじんをじっと見みるべきではない。

People shouldn't stare at foreigners.

彼かれはがいじんと話はなすのになれている。

He is used to talking to foreigners.

そのがいじんはスコットランド出しゅっ身しんだ。

The foreigner comes from Scotland.