NIHON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nihon mean? 

• NIHON (noun)
  The noun NIHON has 1 sense:

1. a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

  Familiarity information: NIHON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIHON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Nihon"):

Toyohashi (a Japanese city in southern Honshu on the Pacific shore)

Asahikawa (a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area)

capital of Japan; Edo; Japanese capital; Tokio; Tokyo; Yeddo; Yedo (the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan)

Nagano (a city in central Honshu to the northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine)

Nagoya (an industrial city in southern Honshu)

Omiya (a city of east central Honshu; a suburb of Tokyo)

Osaka (port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan)

Yokohama (port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan)

Naha City (the chief city in the Ryukyu Islands)

Ryukyu Islands (a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972))

Kyoto (a city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan)

Sapporo (a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido)

Kitakyushu (a Japanese city on northern Kyushu)

Fukuoka (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu)

Nagasaki (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb)

Toyonaki (a Japanese city in southern Honshu; main residential suburb of Osaka)

Toyota (an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu)

Asama; Mount Asama (a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet))

Kammon Strait Bridge (a suspension bridge between Kyushu and Honshu)

Volcano Islands (a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas)

Iwo Jima (the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan)

Fuji; Fuji-san; Fujinoyama; Fujiyama; Mount Fuji (an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages)

Meronyms (members of "Nihon"):

Japanese; Nipponese (a native or inhabitant of Japan)

Domain member region:

Ozawa; Seiji Ozawa (United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935))

kamikaze (a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash)

koto player (a musician who plays the koto)

sumo wrestler (a wrestler who participates in sumo (a Japanese form of wrestling))

yakuza (a Japanese gangster)

Esaki; Leo Esaki (physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925))

hara-kiri; harakiri; harikari; seppuku (ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society)

Japanese (the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese)

sumo (a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground)

go; go game (a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters)

shogi (a form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces)

acupressure; G-Jo; shiatsu (treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body)

jiujitsu; jujitsu; jujutsu (a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength)

ninjitsu; ninjutsu (the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage)

karate (a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat (in Japanese, karate means 'empty hand'); sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent)

origami (the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds))

chanoyu; tea ceremony (an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea)

futon (mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame)

kamikaze (a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II)

shoji (a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper)

Shingon (a form of Buddhism emphasizing mystical symbolism of mantras and mudras and the Buddha's ideal which is inexpressible)

prefecture (the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire))

Ryukyuan (the language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands)

miso (a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces)

wasabi (the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish)

sukiyaki (thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce)

sashimi (very thinly sliced raw fish)

sushi (rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed)

tempura (vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried)

rice beer; sake; saki (Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot)

Aum; Aum Shinrikyo; Supreme Truth (a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity)

Chukaku-Ha (an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing)

Anti-Imperialist International Brigade; Japanese Red Army; JRA (a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists)

yakuza (organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises)

diet (a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan))

Holonyms ("Nihon" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

 Context examples 

Element number 113, nihonium, is named after the Japanese name for the country of Japan — Nihon — where it was first synthesized and discovered by researchers at the RIKEN institute.

(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)