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Nippon

Definition: Nippon

Nippon

Noun

1. 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.
 

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Nippon

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField
NIFEnglishNippon Investment FundFinance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Nippon

Synonyms: Japan (n), Nihon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nippon

Specialty definitions using "Nippon": Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.. (references)

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Modern Usage: Nippon

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Nippon chinbotsu (1973)

Poruno no shojo: Nippon sex ryoko (1973)

Gendai Nippon boko ankokushi (1972)

Nippon sanjûshi: Osaraba Tokyo no maki (1972)

Yasashii Nippon jin (1971)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Nippon

DomainTitle

References

  • All Nippon Airways Co Ltd (ANA): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Kinki Nippon Railway Co Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Shin Nippon Air Technologies Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Dai Nippon Construction: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Collector's Encyclopedia of Nippon Porcelain w/ Price Guide : Updated, Series 5 (of 5 Series Set) (reference)

  • Collectors Encyclopedia of Nippon Porcelain: Identification & Values (reference)

  • Nippon Dolls & Playthings: Identification and Values (reference)

  • Two Sons of Nippon (reference)

  • Viva Nippon!?: Ruminations on Japans Cultural, Educational and Industrial Institutions (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Nippon : Business Facts & Figures (reference)

  • Nippon Gan Chiryo Gakkai Shi (reference)

  • Nippon Nettai Igakkai Zasshi = Japanese Journal Of Tropical Med And Hygiene (reference)

  • Nihon Eiyo Shokuryo Gakkai Shi = Nippon Eiyo Shokuryo Gakkaishi (reference)

  • Vogue Nippon (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Nippon

Photos:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Nippon

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

How to catch a husband - Nippon fashion.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nippon

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Nippon Columbia is developing an electronic music distribution system with Sega and Hitachi. (references)

Pohang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (POSCO), the world's second largest steel maker next to Nippon Steel of Japan, is the key player in the Korean domestic market as well as the international market. (references)

Various international cultural facilities and commercial facilities (including shops and restaurants) are planned in this area. These areas will be developed in close cooperation with Osaka Prefecture, Sakai City and the land-owners (including Nippon Steel, Osaka Gas, etc.). (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

SLT is 65.1%-owned by GSL, 35% by Japan's Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), and 3.5% by SLT employees. (references)

Burma

It is operated by Premier Petroleum of the UK, and is co-owned by a consortium involving Nippon of Japan, PTT of Thailand, Petronas of Malaysia, and MOGE. (references)

Sri Lanka

In 1997, the Government sold 35 percent of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the state-owned telecommunications entity, to Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) of Japan. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

Procurement from foreign sources by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) group companies, which collectively are the largest purchaser of telecommunications' equipment in Japan, remain below the level of foreign procurement by Japanese private sector telecommunications' carriers. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Some of the users are Sharp, Maxon, Acropolis, Canon, TDK, JVC, Audinac, Pioneer, Rates, Audio Logic, Zenith, Daewo, Talent, Goldstar, Panashiba, Nashiba, Le Roy, Carandache, Baume & Mercier, Corum, Tag Heuer, Movado, Caterpillar, Valvoline, Komatsu, Cummins, Coleman, John Deere, Home, Litte, Snapper, Asia, Kia, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan, Case, SKF, Fag Steyr, Armstrong, Stanetex Tile, Multicolor Prem, Abco Haldex, Sigma Paximat, York, Autobombas Ford, GM, American Lafrance, Venus Carpet, Kalpakian Floget, Blue Diamond, Stronger, Yale, Skoda, Cessna, Bayer, Nike, Topper, Avia, Jovi, Canson, Stabilo, La Serenisima, Sancor, Ceres, Goodyear, Eastman, Digitar, Tecno Steel, Dallas, Cristaleria Bohemia, Heidelberg, Polar, Hempel, Crosley, Waltek, Exenel, Printex, Darling, Wega, R.N., Tecno 1, Medtronic, Akroplast, BRD, Lostra 2100 Fume, Care Quilt, Rae Flex, Zwiling, Nippon, Kaijo, Ki, Trinity, Asme, Dupont, Siderar, Sanitron, Band Ai, Alcoa, Samsonite, Daihatsu, Rhone Poulenc, Asics, Etam, Grimoldi, Boating Shoes, Sthil, Subaru, Daewoo, Cadbury de Argentina, Cafes La Virginia, Construcciones Metalurgicas Zanello, Electrolux Argentina, Ilko Argentina, Impsat, Ledesma Mattel Argentina, Multicolor Argentina, Papelera Tucuman, Pecom NEC, Philco Ushuaia, Phillips Argentina, Ralston Purina Argentina, Spazio Casa Simmons de Argentina. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nippon

"Nippon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.68% of the time. "Nippon" is used about 88 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)80.68%7139,674
Noun (singular)17.05%1590,616
Noun (common)2.27%2245,945
                    Total100.00%88N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Nippon

CountryNameCountryName
Japan

All Nippon Airways Co Ltd (ANA)

Thailand

Nippon Pack (Thailand) Public Company Limited

United Kingdom

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Nippon

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Nippon": Pol-nippon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nippon

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nippon

337

nippon airline

109

nippon express

90

motor nippon

59

nippon china

55

air nippon

49

denso nippon

27

nippon steel

27

nippon porcelain

25

nippon paint

24

nippon wheels

22

airline cargo nippon

21

nippon racing

21

nippon racing wheels

19

nippon life insurance

16

nippon vase

15

nippon chemi con

14

cargo nippon

13

antique nippon

12

dai nippon

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nippon

Language Translations for "Nippon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

日本 (Japan). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Ιαπωνία (Japan). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Japán (Japan, japanese, Japanese woman, japon, japonic, nipponese, sunburst). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

電電公社 (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation), 近鉄 (Kinki Nippon Tetsudou), 新日本製鐵 (Nippon Steel Corporation), 日豊本線 (Nippon Main Line), 全日空 (All Nippon Airlines, ANA). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぜ"にっくう (All Nippon Airlines, ANA), し"にっぽ"せいてつ (Nippon Steel Corporation), し"にほ"せいてつ (Nippon Steel Corporation), き"てつ (adamancy, firmness, gold and iron, Kinki Nippon Tetsudou), で"で""うしゃ (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation), にっぽうほ"せ" (Nippon Main Line). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ipponnay

   

Portuguese

  

Lampsana. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Japón (Japan). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ญี่ปุ่น (Japan). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Nippon

Misspellings

"Nippon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Napton, nipkow, Nippan, Nipro, N'pan, Vipond. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Nippon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-n-n-o-p-p"

-1 letter: pinon.

-2 letters: pion.

-3 letters: inn, ion, nip, pin, pip, poi, pop.

-4 letters: in, no, on, op, pi.

 Words containing the letters "i-n-n-o-p-p"
 

+2 letters: penpoint, pinpoint.

 

+3 letters: oppugning, penpoints, pinpoints, propining, proponing.

 

+4 letters: appointing, dognapping, nincompoop, pepsinogen, pinpointed, postponing, preopening, propending, unpeopling, unstopping.

 

+5 letters: appointment, inopportune, nincompoops, pepsinogens, pinpointing, plainspoken, plenipotent, propounding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nippon


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 69 70 70 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101001 01110000 01110000 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#112 &#112 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 0070 0070 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

487582828180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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