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Definition: Nihon |
NihonNoun1. A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
| NIKKEI | English | Nihon Keizai index | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: NihonSynonyms: Japan (n), Nippon (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nihon boryoku-dan: koroshi no sakazuki (1972) Zoku nihon boko ankokushi bogyakuma (1967) Nihon kyokaku-den: kirikomi (1967) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | According to a survey by the Nihon Sen-i Shinbun, Japanese manufacturers think the toddler category is most promising. (references) | |
The Nihon Sen-i Shinbun conducted a survey of 33 leading department stores about children's wear brands which sell very well. Over 60% of department stores chose Miki House, a brand by the top children's wear manufacturer. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | Currently, about 30 companies supply their products to the Ukrainian market, including such well-known giants as the Swiss corporation Novartis+ADs- German companies AgrEvo, Bayer and BASF+ADs- French Ron-Poulainc+ADs- British Zeneca and Uniroyal Chemical+ADs- Spanish Inagrossa+ADs- and Takeda, Nippon Soda, Nihon Noyaku, Nissan Chemical, Sumitomo Chemical and Sankyo from Japan. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nihon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nihon" is used about 9 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Higashi Nihon House Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Nihon": nihon-nukite. | |
| 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 |
nihon | 43 |
nihon kohden | 24 |
kaigun nihon | 18 |
alexis nihon | 11 |
nihon university | 8 |
nihon goshin aikido | 8 |
nihon tv | 8 |
nihon keizai shimbun | 7 |
koden nihon | 7 |
nihon light | 6 |
khoden nihon | 4 |
nihon keizai | 4 |
nihon go | 3 |
dojo kun nihon | 3 |
nihon photo | 2 |
nihon shin | 2 |
nihon seiki | 2 |
nihon nvr140s | 2 |
fr.com nihon | 2 |
nihon spindle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Nihon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 日本書紀 (Nihon-shoki), 日本平 (Nihon Plain). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | にほ"しょき (Nihon-shoki), にほ" いら (Nihon Plain). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ihonnay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-n-n-o" | |
-2 letters: hin, hon, inn, ion, noh. | |
-3 letters: hi, ho, in, no, oh, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-n-n-o" | |
+1 letter: honing. | |
+2 letters: chignon, chinone, donnish, honking, horning, inkhorn, noshing, nothing, phoning, thionin, tinhorn, tonnish. | |
+3 letters: antiphon, chignons, chinbone, chinones, cinchona, fenthion, gnathion, hominian, hominine, hondling, honeying, honoring, hounding, inhesion, inkhorns, inthrone, johnnies, nonohmic, nonwhite, northing, notching, nothings, phonying, shinbone, thindown, thionine, thionins, thorning, throning, tinhorns. | |
+4 letters: anchoring, anhedonia, anhedonic, anthelion, anthemion, antiphons, antiphony, benthonic, chelonian, chinbones, chthonian, cinchonas, dehorning, donnishly, endorphin, enhaloing, ethionine, fenthions, gnathions, hamboning, hoidening, hominians, honchoing, honouring, horniness, hoydening, ichneumon, inharmony, inhesions, inholding, inthroned, inthrones, monishing, moonshine, nightgown, nightlong, nonethnic, nonshrink, nontheist, nonwhites, northings, onrushing, ornithine, orphaning, phelonion, phenytoin, phonating, phonation, phoneying, phoniness, shinbones, siphoning, stanchion, stinkhorn, syphoning, thindowns, thionines, threonine, thronging, unchoking, unhooding, unhooking, unhorsing, unhousing, whinstone, whodunnit. | |
+5 letters: anachronic, anhedonias, anopheline, anthelions, antiphonal, bethorning, champignon, chelonians, cinchonine, cinchonism, coinhering, cushioning, dethroning, echeloning, endorphins, enharmonic, enthroning, ethionines, fashioning, foxhunting, gunkholing, harpooning, hemocyanin, herniation, hoarsening, hobnailing, hobnobbing, hominizing, hosannaing, ichneumons, incoherent, indophenol, inhalation, inharmonic, inhibition, inholdings, inhumation, inthroning, ironhanded, methionine, monophonic, moonshiner, moonshines, nalorphine, nationhood, nightgowns, nonethical, nonhistone, nonhostile, nonhousing, nonhunting, nontheists, nourishing, ornithines, outhunting, outshining, phelonions, phenytoins, phonations, pincushion, pothunting, prehension, rhinestone, roughening, shortening, stanchions, stinkhorns, stonishing, synchronic, thorniness, threonines, toughening, unclothing, unholiness, unthroning, whinstones, whodunnits, youthening. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 68 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. .... --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01101000 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i h o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0068 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4875748180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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