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Definition: Asian |
AsianAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries". 2. Denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java; "Oriental politeness"; "for people of South and East Asian ancestry the term `Asian' is preferred to `Oriental'"; "Asian ancestry". Noun1. A native or inhabitant of Asia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Asian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Asian \A"sian\, adjective. [Latin expression Asianus, Greek, from, from Latin expression Asia.]. (references) |
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Census | Self-identification among people of Asian descent. In 1997, the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised the standards for how the Federal government would collect and present data on race and ethnicity. The new guidelines reflect "the increasing diversity of our Nation's population, stemming from growth in interracial marriages and immigration." These new guidelines revised some of the racial categories used in 1990 and preceding censuses and allowed respondents to report as many race categories as were necessary to identify themselves on the Census 2000 questionnaire. These are the 17 detailed Asian race and ethnic categories used in displaying data from Census 2000: Asian Indian Bangladeshi Cambodian Chinese, except Taiwanese Filipino Hmong Indonesian Japanese Korean Laotian Malaysian Pakistani Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thai Vietnamese Other Asian Related terms: Census (decennial), Race. (references) |
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Anatolia (Greek for east), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of continental Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey.
Because of its strategic location at the intersection of Asia and Europe, Anatolia has been a cradle for several civilizations since prehistoric ages, with early settlements such as Catalhoyuk.
Major civilizations and peoples that have settled in or conquered Anatolia include the Hittites, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Lydians, Persians, Celts, Greeks, Armenians, Roman Empire, Goths, Kurds, Byzantine Empire, Seljuk Turks and Ottoman Empire.
While long being a blend of ethnic influences, historical Anatolia was largely a part of the European ethnic-sphere, whereas the Anatolia of today is primarily Turkic and Middle-Eastern in nature.
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This article is about the continent and region, for the sea-nymph named Asia in Greek mythology, see Asia (mythology).
Extent
1. The continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Hellespont, the Black Sea, the ridges of the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River and the Ural Mountains to Novaya Zemlya. See also Eurasia.
2. The region of Asia is the continent of Asia plus nearby islands.
Subregions of Asia include:
- Central Asia
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- South Asia
- Middle East
- Anatolia
- Levant
- Mesopotamia
- Arabia
Map
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Asia with locations indicated
country pop. dens. area population (km-2) (km2) (2002-07-01 est.) Macau (PRC) 18,000 25 461,833
Hong Kong (PRC) 6,688 1,092 7,303,334 Singapore 6,430 693 4,452,732 Maldives 1,070 300 320,165 Bahrain 987 665 656,397 Bangladesh 926 144,000 133,376,684 Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu) 627 35,980 22,548,009 Palestinian territories (Isr.) 545 6,220 3,389,578 South Korea 491 98,480 48,324,000 Lebanon 354 10,400 3,677,780 Japan
336 377,835 126,974,628 India 318 3,287,590 1,045,845,226 Sri Lanka 298 65,610 19,576,783 Israel 290 20,770 6,029,529 Philippines 282 300,000 84,525,639 Vietnam 246 329,560 81,098,416 North Korea 184 120,540 22,224,195 Nepal 184 140,800 25,873,917 Pakistan 184 803,940 147,663,429 People's Republic of China (Mainland) 134 9,596,960 1,284,303,705 Thailand 121 514,000 62,354,402 Indonesia 121 1,919,440 231,328,092 Kuwait 118 17,820 2,111,561 Armenia 112 29,800 3,330,099 Syria 93 185,180 17,155,814 Azerbaijan 90 86,600 7,798,497 Turkey 86 780,580 67,308,928 Georgia 71 69,700 4,960,951 Cambodia 71 181,040 12,775,324 Qatar 69 11,437 793,341 Malaysia 69 329,750 22,662,365 East Timor 63 15,007 952,618 Myanmar 62 678,500 42,238,224 Brunei 61 5,770 350,898 Jordan 58 92,300 5,307,470 Uzbekistan 57 447,400 25,563,441 Iraq 55 437,072 24,001,816 Tajikistan 47 143,100 6,719,567 Bhutan 45 47,000 2,094,176 Afghanistan 43 647,500 27,755,775 Iran 40 1,648,000 66,622,704 Yemen 35 527,970 18,701,257 United Arab Emirates 30 82,,880 2,445,989 Laos 24 236,800 5,777,180 Kyrgyzstan 24 198,500 4,822,166 Oman 13 212,460 2,713,462 Saudi Arabia 12 1,960,582 23,513,330 Turkmenistan 9.6 488,100 4,688,963 Russia 8.5 17,075,200 144,978,573 Kazakhstan 6.2 2,717,300 16,741,519 Mongolia 1.7 1,565,000 2,694,432
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An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States.The term "Asian American" is credited to the historian Yuji Ichioka who, in the late 1960s, used it to describe members of a new pan-ethnic radical political identity who shared common histories, experiences, and goals. This term has largely replaced the now-deprecated term "oriental", which was popularly used before the 1990s to describe East Asian peoples regardless of nationality, upbringing, or origin.
Although immigrants from the "Middle East" (Western and Central Asia) are geographically Asian, they have generally neither been sufficiently visibly distinct as a group in America nor have they historically arrived in such large numbers to warrant attention as a major American racial or ethnic group until very recently (see 9/11). As a result, they are not considered by most Americans to be typical Asians or Asian Americans, but identified by other means, such as "Arab Americans". For these same reasons, northern Asians such as Siberians and peoples from former USSR Central Asian states are usually not spoken of as "Asian Americans" either. In fact, until the late 1960s, the people formerly known as "orientals" were much less diverse than they are now.
Depending on whether multi-racial populations are included, the 2000 census recorded between 10 million and 12 million Asians, slightly more than 3% of the U.S. population. The largest ethnic subgroups are Chinese (2.3 million), Filipinos (1.9M), Asian Indians (1.7M), Vietnamese (1.1M), and Koreans (1.1M). The Asian American population is heavily urbanized, with approximately 40% of all Asian Americans living in the metropolitan areas around Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City. Half of all Asian Americans (5.4M) live on the West Coast or Hawaii, mostly in California (4.2M).
Immigration trends of recent decades have dramatically altered the statistical composition and popular understanding of who is an Asian American. The dramatic transformation of Asian America, and of America itself, is largely credited to the removal of over 75 years of discriminatory immigration laws that banned Chinese, then subsequent Asian ethnic groups, from becoming immigrants or citizens of the United States.
Asian Americans have largely been perceived as members of the East Asian ethnic groups, specifically Chinese and Japanese, the two largest ethnic groups before 1965, as well as Filipinos who became colonial subjects of the US in 1898 due to the Spanish-American War. However, Asian America now also includes many Koreans, Filipinos of different classes and educational achievements, and Southeast Asians. Asian America includes people from South Asia -- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The term includes Thai, Burmese, Lao, Cambodians, Hmong, Tibetans, Nepalese, and other Southeast Asian immigrants to the US, and sometimes also Pacific Islanders such as Samoans, Tongans, Fijians, Guamanians (Chamorro), and Native Hawaiians.
This rapid change in Asian American demographics occurred after enactment of the 1965 immigration reforms. This act replaced exclusionary immigration rules of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its successors, such as the Reed-Johnson Act or 1924 immigration act, which effectively excluded "undesirable" immigrants, including Asians. The 1965 rules set across-the-board immigration quotas for each country, opening the borders to immigration from Asia for the first time in nearly half a century.
Two other influences, however, have been equally worthy of attention. First, in the wake of World War II, immigration preferences favored family reunification and attracting highly skilled workers to meet American workforce deficiencies. Secondly, the end of the Korean War and Vietnam War or so-called "secret wars" in Southeast Asia brought a new wave of Asian American immigration as people from Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia arrived; some, in the case of the Korean War, were war brides, who were soon joined by their families; others, like the Southeast Asians, were either highly skilled and educated classes or subsequent waves of refugees seeking asylum.
Japanese Americans and South Asians are emblematic of the recent trends. Japanese Americans are widely recognized as an Asian American sub-group. In 1970, there were nearly 600,000 Japanese Americans, making it the largest sub-group. Today, Japanese Americans are the sixth-largest group, with relatively low rates of births and immigration. In 1990 there were slightly fewer South Asian in the US than Japanese Americans. However, Indian Americans nearly doubled in population between 1990 and 2000 to become the third largest group, and high rates of immigration from across Asia will make Asian America increasingly representative of the continent itself.
Specific groups
- American-born Chinese
- Chinese American
- Taiwanese American
- Japanese American
- Korean American
- Laotian American
- Vietnamese-American
Lists of famous Asian Americans
The following is a list of Asian Americans from smaller ethnic communities, such as those from Southeast Asia and South Asia:
- List of famous Chinese Americans
- List of famous Japanese Americans
- List of famous Korean Americans
See also:
- Han Ong (born Ong Soo-han), Filipino American playwright of Chinese ancestry
- Ke Huy Quan, Vietnamese American actor
- Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer, subject of "Killing Fields"
- Lea Salonga, Filipino American singer
- Tiger Woods, professional golf athelete, half-Thai
- Asian American Journalists Association
- Asian Canadian
- Demographics of the United States
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Asian American."
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The Asian financial crisis was a financial crisis that started in July 1997 in Thailand, and affected currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices of several Asian countries.Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand were the countries most affected by the crisis with Malaysia, Philippines and Hong Kong also hit by the slump. Mainland China and Taiwan were relatively unaffected. Japan was not affected much by this crisis but was going through its own ongoing long-term economic difficulties.
History
Until 1996, Asia attracted almost half of total capital inflows to developing countries. However, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea had large external deficits and the maintenance of pegged exchange rate encouraged external borrowing and led to excessive exposure to foreign exchange risk in both the financial and corporate sectors.
The Asian crisis started in mid-1997 and affected currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices of several South East Asian economies. Triggered by events in Latin America, Western investors lost confidence in securities in East Asia and began to pull money out, this led to a snowball effect.
Thailand
From 1985 to 1995, Thailand's economy grew at an average of 9%. On May 14 and May 15, 1997, the baht, the local currency, was hit by massive speculative attacks. On June 30, Prime Minister Chavalit Yonchaiyudh said that he would not devaluate the baht, but Thailand's administration eventually floated the local currency, on July 2.
In 1996, an American hedge fund had already sold $400 million of the Thai currency. From 1985 until July 2, 1997, the baht was pegged at 25 to the dollar. The baht dropped very swiftly and lost half of his value. The baht reached its lowest point of 56 to the dollar in January 1998. Thai stock market dropped 75% in 1997. Finance One, the largest Thai finance company collapsed. On August 11, the IMF unveiled a rescue package for Thailand with more 16 billion dollars. The IMF approved on August 20, another bailout package of 3.9 billion dollars.
Philippines
The Philippines central bank raised interest rates by 1.75 percentage points in May and again by 2 points on June 19. Thailand triggered the crisis on July 2. On July 3, the Philippines central bank was forced to intervene heavily to defend the peso, it raised the overnight rate from 15 percent to 24 percent.
Hong Kong
In October 1997, the Hong Kong dollar, which was also pegged at 7.8 to the US dollar, came under speculative pressure. Monetary authorities spent more than US$1 billion to defend the local currency. Stock markets become more and more volatile, between, October 20 and October 23, Hang Seng Index dipped by 23%. Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the People's Republic of China promised to protect the currency. On August 15, Hong Kong raised overnight rates from 8 percent to 23 percent.
South Korea
South Korea is the world's 11th largest economy. In July, South Korea's third largest car maker, Kia Motors asked for emergency loans. Moody's lowered the credit rating of South Korea. That triggered a sharp fall in stock markets. On November 7, 1997, the Seoul stock exchange fell 4 percent. On November 8, it plunged 7 percent, the biggest one-day decline. On November 24, stocks fell another 7.2 percent.
Malaysia
In 1997, Malaysia had a large current account deficit of over 6 percent of GDP. In July, the Malaysian ringgit was attacked by speculators. Malaysia floated its currency on August 17, 1997 and the ringgit fell sharply. Four days later, Standard & Poor's downgraded the debt rating of Malaysia. A week later, the rating agency downgraded the rating of Maybank, the largest bank of Malaysia. The same day, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's plunged at 856 points, its lowest point since 1993. On October 2, the ringgit dropped again. Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad introduced capital controls. However, the currency collapsed again in late 1997 when Mahathir bin Mohamed announced that the government would spend 10 billion ringgit in a road, rail and pipeline project.
In 1998, output of most sectors declined. The construction sector contracted 23.5 percent, manufacturing shrunk 9 percent and the agriculture sector 5.9 percent. Malaysia's gross domestic product plunged 6.2 percent in 1998.
Indonesia
In June 1997, Indonesia seemed far from crisis. Unlike Thailand, Indonesia had low inflation, a trade surplus of more than 900 million dollar, huge foreign exchange reserves of more than 20 billion dollar, and a good banking sector.
In July, when Thailand floated the baht, Indonesia's monetary authorities widened the rupiah trading band from 8 percent to 12 percent. The rupiah came under severe attack in August. On 14 August 1997, the managed floating exchange regime was replaced by a free-floating exchange rate arrangement. The rupiah dropped further. The IMF came forward with a rescue package of 23 billion dollar, but the rupiah was sinking further amid fears over corporate debts, massive selling of rupiah, strong demand for dollars. The rupiah and Jakarta Stock Exchange touched a new historic low in September. Moody's eventually downgraded Indonesia's long-term debt to junk bond. The inflation of the rupiah and the resulting steep hikes in the prices of food staples led to riots throughout the country. In February 1998, president Suharto sacked the governor of Bank Indonesia, but this proved insufficient. Suharto was forced to resign in mid-1998 and B. J. Habibie became president.
Mainland China
The People's Republic of China was largely not affected by the crisis because of the non-convertibility of the renminbi and the fact that almost all of its foreign investment took the form of factories on the ground rather than securities. While the PRC had and continues to have severe solvency problems in their banking system, most of the deposits in PRC banks are domestic and there was not a run on the banks.
The United States and Japan
The "Asian flu" also put pressure on the United States and Japan. Their economies did not collapse, but they were severely hit. On October 27, 1997, the Dow Jones industrial plunged 554-point, or 7.2 percent, amid ongoing worries about the Asian economies. New York Stock Exchange briefly suspended trading. Japan was affected because its economy is prominent in the region Asian countries usually run a trade deficit with Japan because the latter's economy is more than twice the size of the rest of Asia together, and seven times China's. About 40 percent of Japan's exports go to Asia.
GDP real growth rate slowed dramatically in 1997, from 5 percent to 1,6 percent and even sank into recession in 1998. Moreover, the Asian crisis led to a drop in consumer and spending confidence, and to major bankruptcies in Japan. The Asian financial crisis also led to more bankruptcies in Japan.
Consequences
The Asian crisis affected currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices of several Asian countries. Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand were the countries most affected by the crisis. The economic crisis also led to political upheaval, most notably culminating in the resignations of Suharto in Indonesia and Chavalit Yongchaiyudh in Thailand. There was a general rise in anti-Western sentiment, with George Soros and the International Monetary Fund in particular singled out as scapegoats. Culturally, the Asian financial crisis killed the idea of Asian values which presumed that East Asia had found a political and economic structure that was superior to the West. The Asian crisis also raised the economic prestige of the People's Republic of China considerably.
The Asian crisis contributed to the Russian and Brazilian crisis in 1998, because after the Asian crisis, banks were relectant to lend to emerging countries.
See also
- Economy
- Economy of China
- Economy of Hong Kong
- Economy of Indonesia
- Economy of South Korea
- Economy of Thailand
- List of finance topics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Asian financial crisis."
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Humans Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Hominidae Genus: Homo Species: Sapiens Binomial name Homo sapiens Biologists classify humans as a species (Homo sapiens) of primates and the only surviving species of the genus Homo. The species is commonly referred to as "humankind" or "humanity" and its members as "humans", "human beings" or "people". The species name Homo sapiens is an uncountable noun and has no plural form. Man is a male human being and woman is a female human being. All current humans, from across all areas of the Earth, are of this species.
According to mainstream biology, the closest living evolutionary relatives to humans are the two species of chimpanzee Pan troglodytes ("common chimp") and Pan paniscus ("pygmy chimp" or "Bonobo"), and to a lesser degree other hominoids such as orangutans and gorillas. Biologists have compared a sequence of DNA base pairs between humans and chimpanzees, and estimated an overall genetic difference of 5% [1]. It has been estimated that the human lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees about 5 million years ago, and from gorillas about 8 million years ago. However, recent news reports of a hominid skull approximately 7 million years old already showing a divergence from the ape lineage strongly suggests an earlier divergence. Some scientists argue that bonobos, chimpanzees and, possibly, gorillas should be lumped into the genus Homo, but this is currently a minority opinion.
Various religious groups have raised objections and controversy concerning the theory of humanity's evolution from a common ancestor with the other hominoids. See creationism and argument from evolution for opposing points of view.
Physical characteristics
Image of a Caucasian man and woman, taken from
the Pioneer 11 spacecraft image.
(Public domain image)The body of humans is described in the human anatomy group of articles. Humans have a wide range of variability in physical and other characteristics.
The evolution of Homo sapiens is characterized by a number of important trends:
How these trends are related, in what ways they have been adaptive, and what their role is in the evolution of complex social organization and culture, are matters of ongoing debate among physical anthropologists.
- expansion of the brain cavity and brain itself, which is typically about 1,400 cm3 in volume, well over twice that of a chimpanzee or gorilla. Some physical anthropologists argue that a reorganization of the structure of the brain is more important than cranial expansion itself.
- canine tooth reduction.
- bipedal locomotion
- descent of the larynx (which makes possible the production of the complex sound known as vocal language).
Although body size is highly heritable, it is also significantly influenced by environmental and cultural factors such as diet. The mean height of an American adult female is 162 centimetres and the mean weight is 62 kg. Males are typically heavier - 175 cm and 78 kilogram. Humans vary substantially around these means, and the means themselves have varied depending on locality and historical factors.
Human children, typically weighing 3-4 kilograms and 50-60 centimetres in height, are born after a nine-month gestation period. Helpless at birth, they continue to grow for some years, typically reaching sexual maturity at around 12-15 years of age. Boys continue growing for some time after this, often only reaching their maximum height around the age of 18. The average human lifespan is approaching 80 years in wealthy nations, with the assistance of science and technology.
See also human physical appearance.
Homo sapiens compared to other species
Humans often consider themselves to be the "dominant" species on Earth, and the most advanced in intelligence and ability to manage their environment. This belief is especially strong in Western culture, and is based in part in the Biblical Creation story in which Adam is explicitly given dominion over the Earth and all of its creatures.
Biologists and scientists in general, though, do not consider "dominant" to be a useful term, because the adaptive value of any trait or complex of traits depends on the niche and is highly mutable. From a scientific standpoint, Homo sapiens certainly is among the most generalized species on Earth. Smaller and simpler animals such as bacteria and insects greatly surpass humans in population size and diversity of species, but few single species occupy as many diverse environments as humans. Many other species, for example, are adapted to specific environments, whereas humans rely on tools such as clothing and manufactured shelter, which are themselves often produced and used through complex social interactions.
The use of tools and the ability to alter their environment (building shelter, weaving fabrics for clothing, language, and the development of complex social relationships and structures, etc.) has been cited as a characteristic which distinguishes humans from other animals. This difference, however, is not absolute, as ethologists have recorded such behaviors in many species. Apes and even birds, for example, are known to "fish" for insects using blades of grass or twigs, and even to shape the tools for that purpose. No other animal uses tools to the same degree or with the same flexibility as Homo sapiens. Similarly, other animals often have simple methods of communication, but the degree to which humans create and use complex grammar and abstract concepts in language has not been seen in any other species, despite much effort to find it.
Chomskian linguistics holds that a distinguishing feature of humans is that we are the only extant species with a language instinct - a genetic predisposition that produces a brain mechanism whose function is to acquire a language by observing those around us.
Some anthropologists think that these readily observable characteristics (toolmaking and language) are based on a less easily observable mental process that might be unique among humans: the ability to think symbolically. That is, humans can think abstractly about concepts and ideas. They can question, use logic, understand mathematical concepts, and so on in ways that no other animals are known to do, although several species have demonstrated some ability in this area. Nor have other animals demonstrated any remotely comparable ability to plan their actions. This belief is why the species was named Homo sapiens, sometimes translated as "Man the Thinker". Note, however, that the extinct species of the Homo genus (eg, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus) were also adept tool users and there is some evidence that they may have had linguistic skills. Moreover, there are many other animals alive today which use tools, so the idea that making and using tools is a defining characteristic of humans is often considered outdated.
While humans have all these characteristics, from the biological viewpoint "what distinguishes humans from all other animals?" is an odd question: there's no one thing that makes cats, dolphins, or song sparrows unique. Finding other species that shape tools or can use sign language may shed light on human evolution, but it doesn't erase the differences between humans and related species.
See also: Evolution of Homo sapiens, human condition, man, woman, child, humanoid, human variability
Human activity
- Dreaming
- Reading
- Writing
- Listening
- Knowledge
External link
- A Look at Modern Human Origins
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The United States Census Bureau uses the federal government's definitions of race when performing a census. These definitions have and may change between each census. For the 2000 census the census bureau considers race to be separate from Hispanic origin.Because of changes to definitions the census bureau warns the following:
- The question on race for Census 2000 was different from the one for the 1990 census in several ways. Most significantly, respondents were given the option of selecting one or more race categories to indicate their racial identities. Because of these changes, the Census 2000 data on race are not directly comparable with data from the 1990 census or earlier censuses. Caution must be used when interpreting changes in the racial composition of the U.S. population over time.
Definitions
The following definitions apply to the 2000 census only.
- White refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "White" or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.
- Black or African American refers to people having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "Black, African Am., or Negro", or wrote in entries such as African American, Afro American, Nigerian, or Haitian.
- American Indian and Alaska Native refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. It includes people who indicated their race or races by marking this category or writing in their principal or enrolled tribe, such as Rosebud Sioux, Chippewa, or Navajo.
- Asian refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "Asian Indian", "Chinese", "Filipino", "Korean", "Japanese", "Vietnamese", or "Other Asian", or wrote in entries such as Burmese, Hmong, Pakistani, or Thai. (See also: Asian American)
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicated their race or races as "Native Hawaiian", "Guamanian or Chamorro", "Samoan", or "Other Pacific Islander", or wrote in entries such as Tahitian, Mariana Islander, or Chuukese. (See also: American Pacific Islander)
- Some other race was included in 2000 census for respondents who were unable to identify with the five Office of Management and Budget race categories. Respondents who provided write-in entries such as Moroccan, South African, Belizean, or a Hispanic origin (for example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) are included in the "Some other race" category.
Reference
- http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-1.pdf
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Race (US Census)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ASA | English | Asian Students Association | N/A |
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Synonym: AsianSynonym: oriental (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Secret | Noun: secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum, mystery; latency; Asian mystery; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Asian |
| English words defined with "Asian": Asian country, Asian nation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Asian": Acne Keloid, ACUPRESSURIST, APEC, Asian American, Asian Bank, Asian Currency Unit, Asian Development Bank, Asian Monetary Unit, Asian-American ♦ brow-ridged langur ♦ Ethnic origin ♦ Hemoglobin E ♦ Imaus, Invasive species ♦ Landbridge ♦ PTEROCARPUS OFFICINALIS, PTEROCAULON ALOPECUROIDES ♦ Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees, reestie , Retroviruses, Simian ♦ STLV ♦ zipperhead . (references) |
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Screenplays | Hey y'all see a little Asian dude about this height with a steering wheel on his arm (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) In Southeast Asian we'd call this sort of thing 'bad karma' (The 'burbs; writing credit: Dana Olsen) He's an Asian Crocodile (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley) I think it was an Asian gang (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.) Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it (Unbreakable; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | India Our Asian Neighbours (1974) Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962) Tight and Asian (2003) Nasty Asian Sexology 101 (2002) | |
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 | Shown are various shots of a white woman and an asian nurse hanging bags of chemotherapy drugs. This photo was taken at M.D. Anderson in Texas. See artwork: Horizons of Cancer Research (GA-17). Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | A young, professional, asian man stands next to a rack of medical literature holding two booklets. See artwork: OCC-11. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Under experimental conditions the Aedes albopictus mosquito, also known as the Asian Tiger Mosquito, has been found to be a vector of West Nile Virus. Aedes is a genus of the Culicine family of mosquitos. Credit: CDC. |  | F-16 demo team performs at Asian Aerospace '98. |
 | Asian Market. Credit: USDA. |  | Fish Asian Market Products. Credit: USDA. |
 | Ginger, produce section of Asian Market. Credit: USDA. |  | Fish, seafood section of Asian Market. Credit: USDA. |
 | ChuYang, NRCS, Soil Conservationist and Tou Xiong, Fresno State University graduate student and chairman of 1.5 acres donated by Fresno State University, Fresno, California to a group of Hmoung farmers. The farmers are growing Asian vegeatbles to be sold at local farmers markets. Credit: USDA. |  | The Asian multicolored lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, is easy to identify from its false "eyes"-- twin white football-shaped markings behind the head. In color, the insects range from black to mustard, with zero to many spots. A common U.S. form is mustard to red and has 16 or more black spots. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Asian garden" by Judy Lin Commentary: "A small asian garden." | "Asian light" by Lauri Saarni Commentary: "Asian Light with nice atmosphere." |
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 | Gong; Chinese; instrument; musical; orient; Asian; cymbal. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Denis Diderot | Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. |
Walter Lippmann | The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Accordingly, it is less common in African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. (references) | |
Trematodes (flukes) Opisthorchis viverrini (Southeast Asian liver fluke) and O. felineus (cat liver fluke). (references) | ||
Research on the benefits and risks of adjuvant therapy in Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women is needed. (references) | ||
Business | This segment is the main target for Asian manufacturers. (references) | |
Asian carpet manufacturers have invaded the Mexican market. (references) | ||
Local firms are generally staffed by cheap South Asian workers. (references) | ||
Children | Saudi Arabia | In general children play a minimal role in the workforce; however, there have been numerous reports that young boys of Saudi, Sudanese, and South Asian origin are used as jockeys in camel races. (references) |
Suriname | The legal age of sexual consent is 14; however, it is not enforced strictly, and the Asian Marriage Law lowers the marriage age for children of Asian descent to 12 years for girls and 15 years for boys. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | South Asian satellite channels (usually India-based) have become important sources of news and popular entertainment. (references) |
Discrimination | Belize | Discrimination on ethnic or religious grounds is illegal and rare, although ethnic tension, particularly resentment of recently arrived Central American and Asian immigrants, continued to be a problem. (references) |
Economic History | Qatar | End-users: Asian countries. (references) |
United Kingdom | Major ethnic groups: British, Irish, West Indian, South Asian. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iraq | In 2000 three soccer players who played for a team that lost an October game in the Asian Cup quarter finals, reportedly were whipped and detained for 3 days. (references) |
United Kingdom | In September a high court overturned the Home Secretary's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the case of Zahid Mubarek, an Asian inmate at Feltham who was beaten to death in March 2000 by a fellow inmate, Robin Stewart. (references) | |
Zambia | No one was deported during the year; however, Majid Ticklay, who was deported by the Government in 2000 after he wrote a letter that was published in the Post newspaper publicly urging the Asian community to unite behind one political party, remained under a deportation order. (references) | |
Minorities | Botswana | There also are communities of persons of Asian and European descent. (references) |
Seychelles | The education gap between Creoles and citizens of white or Asian origin continued to narrow. (references) | |
Trinidad and Tobago | The private sector is dominated by Indo-Trinidadians and persons of European, Middle Eastern, or Asian descent. (references) | |
Political Economy | Malaysia | Malaysia is a leading member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an organization the United States supports strongly. (references) |
Bahrain | The country has a population of approximately 700,000, an estimated one-third of whom are noncitizens, and many of whom are Asian workers. (references) | |
Burma | Burma remains the world's second leading producer of illicit opium in the world, and accounts for about 80 percent of Southeast Asian production. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kenya | There is one nominated M.P. who is of Asian origin. (references) |
Zambia | In April some of the President's supporters used racist language against two M.P.'s of Asian origin; they were not disciplined. (references) | |
Malawi | A citizen of European origin, several persons of mixed racial ethnicity, and an Asian are sitting members of the National Assembly. (references) | |
Trade | Nepal | The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank are both active in Nepal. (references) |
Vietnam | They are the Asian Commercial Bank (ACB), the Maritime Bank and the Export-Import Bank. (references) | |
India | The ADB finances development projects in 31 Asian countries, totaling USD 5-6 billion per year. (references) | |
Travel | Kazakhstan | In terms of business customs, Kazakhstan is more European than Asian. (references) |
Costa Rica | Restaurants specialize in local, Asian, American, and Continental cuisine. (references) | |
Taiwan | Establishments serving other Asian cuisines can also be found in growing numbers in Taipei. (references) | |
Women | Kuwait | In November an Asian maid committed suicide by burning herself to death. (references) |
Kuwait | In August an Asian man who established a brothel was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment. (references) | |
China | A 1998 Asian Development Bank report estimated that 25 percent of all women are semi-literate or illiterate, compared with 10 percent of men; illiteracy in rural areas generally is higher. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kazakhstan | In May NGO's hosted a joint Central Asian Conference on trafficking. (references) |
Canada | Asian women and girls who are smuggled into Canada often are forced into prostitution. (references) | |
Singapore | Most foreign workers are unskilled laborers and household servants from other Asian countries. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | This forward movement is rooted in the ambitions and the interests of Asian nations themselves. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Before any American troops were committed to Vietnam, a leader of another Asian country expressed this opinion to me when I was traveling in Asia as a private citizen. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Developments in the broad South/Southwest Asian region have also lent a new importance to our relations with India, the largest and strongest power in the area. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | There, too, we are helping to shape an Asian Pacific community of cooperation, not conflict. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Asian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "Asian" is used about 1,822 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.97% | 1,785 | 4,731 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.43% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.6% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,822 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| India | Asian Hotels Limited | Malaysia | Asian Pac Holdings Berhad |
| Philippines | Asian Terminals Inc. | South Korea | Asian Banking Corp. |
| Sri Lanka | Asian Hotels Corporation Limited | United Kingdom | Fidelity Asian Values Plc |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Asian": American Academy of Asian Studies ♦ Asian Americans ♦ Asian Bank ♦ asian black grouse ♦ asian coral snake ♦ asian country ♦ asian crocodile ♦ Asian Currency Unit ♦ asian development bank ♦ Asian dollar ♦ asian flu ♦ Asian Ginseng ♦ asian horseshoe crab ♦ Asian medicine ♦ Asian Monetary Unit ♦ asian nation ♦ Asian Recovery Fund ♦ asian tiger mosquito ♦ asian wild ox ♦ association of Southeast Asian Nations. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Asian": asian-african, asian-american, Asian-ancestry, asian-mauritian, asian-oriented, asian-origin, asian-owned, asian-pacific. | |
Ending with "Asian": anglo-asian, non-asian, pan-asian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
asian | 8,512 | asian art | 800 |
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asian thumb | 8,267 | asian gay | 735 |
asian girl | 4,735 | anal asian | 701 |
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asian model | 3,213 | big tit asian | 592 |
asian porn | 3,197 | asian pic | 583 |
asian xxx | 2,920 | asian blow job | 582 |
asian nude | 2,196 | asian decor | 580 |
asian pussy | 2,044 | busty asian | 568 |
asian food | 1,953 | asian beauty | 557 |
asian woman | 1,709 | asian hardcore | 544 |
asian teen | 1,554 | asian bondage | 541 |
asian lesbian | 1,405 | asian ass | 527 |
free asian porn | 1,194 | free asian picture | 519 |
asian school girl | 1,130 | asian hair style | 519 |
asian shemale | 1,112 | asian bride | 515 |
asian porn star | 956 | hot asian | 499 |
asian babe | 901 | sexy asian | 478 |
asian furniture | 838 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Asian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Asiaties (Asiatic), Asiaat. (various references) | |
Albanian | aziatik (asiatic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | азиатски (asiatic, oriental), азиатец (asiatic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 亞洲 (Asia), 亞 (Asia, at, in, inferior, next to, second), 亚洲 (Asia, Asiatic). (various references) | |
Czech | asijský (asiatic). (various references) | |
Danish | asiatisk (Asiatic), asiat. (various references) | |
Dutch | Aziatisch (Asiatic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aziano, azia (Asiatic). (various references) | |
Farsi | اسیاءی (Oriental). (various references) | |
Finnish | aasialainen (Asiatic). (various references) | |
French | Asiate (Asian woman). (various references) | |
Frisian | Aziatysk (Asiatic). (various references) | |
German | asiat, asiatisch (asiatic). (various references) | |
Greek | ασιάτησ, ασιανόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אסיתי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ázsiai (Asiatic). (various references) | |
Icelandic | Asíumaður, asískur (Asiatic). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang asia. (various references) | |
Italian | asiatico (Asiatic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 赤翡翠 (large reddish brown Asian kingfisher), 月の輪熊 (Asian black bear), 東洋人 (Asian people, Orientals), 東南アジア諸国連合 (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), 大東亜共栄圏 (Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere), インド象 (Asian elephant, Indian elephant), アスペルギルス症 (acetylcholine, ASEAN, aspergillosis, ASROC, assessment, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, athlete, athlete fund, athletic, athletic club, athletics, leisure facilities), アジア競技大会 (Asian Games), アジア大陸 (Asian Continent), アジア大会 (Asian Games), じゃじゃ馬 (crunchy, derog. term for Asian women working in Japan, restive horse, splashing water sound). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つきのわぐま (Asian black bear), あかしょうびん (large reddish brown Asian kingfisher), インドぞう (Asian elephant, Indian elephant), アセアン (ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations), アジアたいかい (Asian Games), アジアたいりく (Asian Continent), アジアきょうぎたいかい (Asian Games), じゃぱゆき (derog. term for Asian women working in Japan), とうなんアジアしょこくれんごう (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), とうようじん (Asian people, Orientals), だいとうあきょうえいけん (Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere). (various references) | |
Korean | 아시아 (Asia, Asiatic). (various references) | |
Manx | Aishanagh (Asiatic). (various references) | |
Norwegian | asiatisk (Asiatic), asiat. (various references) | |
Papiamen | asiátiko (Asiatic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asianay.(various references) | |
Polish | Azjata. (various references) | |
Portuguese | asiático (asiatic). (various references) | |
Romanian | asiatic (asiatic). (various references) | |
Russian | азиатский (asiatic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | azijski (asiatic), azijac. (various references) | |
Spanish | asiático (Asiatic, indian). (various references) | |
Swedish | asiatisk (asiatic), asiat (asiatic). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับทวีปเอเชีย, ชาวเอเชีย. (various references) | |
Turkish | asyalı (asiatic), asya (Asia, asiatic). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | азіатьский (asiatic), азіатка (asiatic), азіат (asiatic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Aedes albopictus, asiani, Barbus, Barbus spp., Bibos, Canis aureus, Elephas maximus, Puntius, Puntius spp., Tragulus meminna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Touto de egeneto epi eth duo wste pantaV touV katoikountaV thn asian akousai ton logon tou kuriou ihsou ioudaiouV te kai ellhnaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hoc autem factum est per biennium ita ut omnes qui habitabant in Asia audirent verbum Domini Iudaei atque gentiles |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | This was doon bi twei yeeris, so that alle that dwelliden in Asie herden the word of the Lord, Jewis and hethene men. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And this contynued by the space of two yeares: so yt all they which dwelt in Asia hearde the worde of the lorde Iesu bothe Iewes and Grekes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And this went on for two years, so that all those who were living in Asia had knowledge of the word of the Lord, Greeks as well as Jews. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 10 |
| Albanian | Dhe kjo vazhdoi dy vjet me radhë, kështu që të gjithë banorët e Azisë, Judenj dhe Grekë, e dëgjuan fjalën e Zotit Jezus. |
| Cebuano | Ug kini nagpadayon sulod sa duha ka tuig, nga tungod niana nakadungog sa pulong sa Ginoo ang tanang nanagpuyo sa Asia, mga Judio ug mga Gresyanhon. |
| Croatian | Trajalo je to dvije godine, tako da su svi azijski žitelji, Židovi i Grci, èuli rijeè Božju. |
| Danish | Men dette varede i to År, så at alle, som boede i Asien, både Jøder og Grækere, hørte Herrens Ord. |
| Dutch | En dit geschiedde twee jaren lang, alzo dat allen, die in Azie woonden, het Woord van den Heere Jezus hoorden, beiden Joden en Grieken. |
| Finnish | Ja sitä kesti kaksi vuotta, niin että kaikki Aasian asukkaat, sekä juutalaiset että kreikkalaiset, saivat kuulla Herran sanan. |
| French | Cela dura deux ans, de sorte que tous ceux qui habitaient l`Asie, Juifs et Grecs, entendirent la parole du Seigneur. |
| German | Und das geschah zwei Jahre lang, also daß alle, die in Asien wohnten, das Wort des HERRN Jesus hörten, beide, Juden und Griechen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia melakukan hal itu terus-menerus dua tahun lamanya sampai semua orang yang tinggal di provinsi Asia, baik orang Yahudi maupun orang bangsa lain, semuanya mendengar perkataan Tuhan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Demikianlah halnya selama dua tahun, sehingga segala orang yang diam di tanah Asia mendengar firman Tuhan, baik orang Yahudi, baik orang Gerika. |
| Korean | 이 같 이 두 해 동 안 을 하 매 아 시 아 에 사 는 자 는 유 대 인 이 나 헬 라 인 이 나 다 주 의 말 씀 을 듣 더 라 |
| Latvian | Tas turpinâjâs divus gadus, tâ ka visi, kas Âzijâ dzîvoja, jûdi un pagâni dzirdçja Kunga vârdu. |
| Maori | Na e rua ona tau i penei ai; a ka rongo katoa te hunga e noho ana i Ahia, nga Hurai, nga Kariki, i te kupu a te Ariki, a Ihu. |
| Norwegian | Dette varte i to år, så alle som bodde i Asia, fikk høre Herrens ord, både jøder og grekere. |
| Portuguese | Durou isto por dois anos; de maneira que todos os que habitavam na Ásia, tanto judeus como gregos, ouviram a palavra do Senhor. |
| Rumanian | Lucrul acesta a yinut doi ani, awa cq toyi ceice locuiau kn Asia, Iudei wi Greci, au auzit Cuvkntul Domnului. |
| Shuar | Nuna Túruki Jimiará Uwí etserkamiayi. Túramu asamtai Ashí Asia nunkanmaya aents Israer-shuar tura Israer-shuarcha Uunt Jesusa Túramurin antukarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Aliendelea kufanya hivyo kwa muda wa miaka miwili hata wakazi wote wa Asia, Wayahudi na watu wa mataifa mengine, wakaweza kusikia neno la Bwana. |
| Swedish | Så fortgick det i två år, och alla provinsen Asiens inbyggare, både judar och greker, fingo på detta sätt höra Herrens ord. |
| Uma | Toe bago-na rala-na rompae, duu' -na hawe'ea tauna to hi propinsi Asia, lompe' to Yahudi lompe' to bela-ra to Yahudi, mpo'epe-ramo Lolita Pue'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Asian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aasman, Abiang, Acsin, adian, Adina, Afina, aisian, Ajina, Alihan, Aliran, Aniane, Anshan, Apsion, Asaf, Asang, Asapah, Asiana, Asie, Asioz, Askiba, Askival, Asnah, Assaad, Asseman, Assman, Assmann, Asva, Ativan, Atsina, Ausona, Ayidan, Azain, azia, Azin, Azione, Aziza, Hasani, Kasiena, Kassiano, Pasiano, Saidani, Saiqa, sayan, Siann, Vaisman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Asian" (pronounced 'A"sian'): Albigensian, Artesian, Athanasian, Australasian, Castrensian, Circassian, Cluniacensian, Complutensian, Lithosian, Magnesian, Malthusian, Manganesian, Marcosian, Megalesian, Melanesian, Paraphrasian, Peloponnesian, Precisian, Premonstratensian, Prussian, Russian, Waldensian. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ains, anas, anis, ansa, sain. | |
-2 letters: aas, ain, ais, ana, ani, ins, sin. | |
-3 letters: aa, ai, an, as, in, is, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: animas, avians, lanais, lianas, manias, naiads, nairas, nasial, paisan, salina. | |
+2 letters: abasing, abstain, acrasin, against, agnails, agnosia, alanins, amnesia, anemias, anginas, animals, anopias, anopsia, anosmia, anoxias, antiars, antisag, anurias, arnicas, artisan, attains, banians, banksia, banzais, basinal, bisnaga, caimans, carinas, entasia, farinas, gainsay, iguanas, indabas, jarinas, kalians, laminas, magians, maniacs, manilas, marinas, naiades, navaids, paesani, paisana, paisano, paisans, papains, parians, pastina, patinas, pinatas, piranas, radians, salinas, salpian, sangria, satanic, saurian, savarin, scandia, shaitan, siamang, stamina, taenias, taipans, tsarina, uranias, vaginas. | |
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