Why is Nippon called Japan?
Why is Nippon called Japan?
Lincoln Brown
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Ian Perry
Why do we call hentai, hentai?
Eli Lopez
Ja = Jakenpo (rock, paper, scissors)
Pan = pan
Hokaiddo has the shape of a pan and the rest of the island is its 'handle'
The islands are made of rock, which is the soil where you built your civilization
Therefore, Japan is a pan made of rock
Jace Fisher
This but unironically
Cameron Torres
why you don't lift up your fat ass and go research by yourself and not just ask
Ian Jones
Japan unironically can traced back to Nippon.
It's a corruption of a corruption of a corruption between languages with wildly different phonologies.
Robert Green
you are onto it
Nicholas Parker
STFU Texas
Elijah Russell
We call it Ιαπωνία (Iaponia)
Dylan Long
>Japon
Jacob Lopez
Sounds cool.
Jonathan Gomez
I just call it US_Nigger_Soldier_Rape_land
Brody Flores
It's an abbreviation of Jipang
Henry Garcia
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Elijah Collins
After Germanicus of Rome
No idea
After the Huns
Phonetical change
Isaac Lewis
its the way how southern chinese called you
dumb westerners take chinese calling your name legit
Benjamin Scott
>Phonetical change
Well there you have it
Jordan Peterson
Because it's based on how Europeans heard the Chinese name for Japan.
Benjamin Ross
is Japan a fun place to visit?
Samuel Walker
日本→Riben(Chinese)→Jiben(how Portuguese sailors though it sounded like)→Japan(English)
Caleb Rivera
We call it yapan
Michael Gutierrez
>yapan
Jeremiah Torres
This is game.
A person who came up with this wonderful and funny answer is the victory.
Gabriel Hernandez
Wikipedia says this form and the English form originated from how Chinese call Japan and that the first mention of Japan in Latin letters was "Giapan" which became Japan and yapan
Chase Johnson
>pan made of rock
More like a wok, amiright?
Adrian Lewis
Japan is a fun place to visit.
Ian Flores
We call it dai nipon.
Jose Robinson
Hmm, Thanks for the explanation!
We call Israel "Isuraeru"
Jaxon Cruz
Yaponiya
Jordan Ward
very nice!
Daniel Carter
It's Japón in Spanish
Benjamin Hall
When will you visit Japan?
Gavin Campbell
It's from mispronounced cantonese you dumb fuck.
Ian Smith
after getting a job and enough spare money
Levi Hughes
>mispronounced cantonese
they just read kanji the way they read
Michael Morales
I'm looking forward to you coming to Japan.
Ryan Hill
There was a German dude who loved bread a lot, bread was his religion, his god. He wanted to prove how bread is divine, so he took a boat and sailed as far he could, he arrived at an island inhabited by strange people, he ran into a store and saw a big, breshly baked loaf of bread. He screamed "Ja! Pan!" and the name stuck.
Sebastian Ortiz
I knew this anime.
Alexander Barnes
you are very nice
I'll be sure to visit japan in the future
Luis Johnson
Explain these
Elijah Jones
Chase Hughes
en.wikipedia.org
Basically just a slight mistranslation of an older name
Samuel Diaz
We call them "yeepoon"
Robert Ross
Nippon (Japanese) -> riben (Mandarin) -> zeppen (Wu Chinese) ->jepang (Malay/Indonesian)-> japan
Ayden Morales
>malay = japan
Wrong, it's Jepun
Indonesian is Jepang
Wyatt Murphy
boring
Benjamin Nelson
based and redpilled
Alexander Cook
Probably because of merchants borrowing the name for japan from certain chinese dialects. I know a chinese guy from eastern china and he says that in his lical dialect japan is called zaban
Matthew Green
I don't get it. Is it about a guy catching a guy crossdressing?
Thomas Wright
thanks crobro
it means a lot coming from such a wholesome sensible individual such as you
Logan Sullivan
Is "pan" (frying pan, saucepan) or bread?
Aaron Foster
Pan is bread in Portuguese which you guys took as a loan word. In English it pretty much refers to a frying pan, or saucepan. Also we call you يابان.
Easton Green
This.
Why do foreigners call 2D porn "hentai"?
Joseph Campbell
>From Dutch Japan or Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Sinitic 日本, likely from an earlier stage of modern Cantonese reading jat6 bun2 or Min Nan ji̍t-pún (in turn from Middle Chinese nyit-pwón, potentially from older Old Chinese *nit-pˁənʔ but unattested in Old Chinese-era literature). Compare also Mandarin 日本 (Rìběn), Japanese 日本 (Nippon), Korean 일본 (Ilbon), Vietnamese Nhật Bản.
Hudson Martinez
Based wikipedia
Hunter Rodriguez
because of all the fucking japs that live there
Elijah Edwards
Thanks :3
In Japan, パン(pann) is the meaning of "bread"
So we know that pan means bread
Gavin Scott
Why is ochinchin called chinpo
Parker Rogers
チンポ Chinpo is original
チンチン Chinchin or チンコ Chinko is baby talks
Nolan Morgan
bread is pão
Matthew Morales
stfu, redneck
Owen Brooks
Something to do with Portugal.
Bentley Wilson
Because japanese cant pronounce for shit they used pan
Colton Stewart
>The English word Japan possibly derives from the historical Chinese pronunciation of 日本. The Old Mandarin or possibly early Wu Chinese pronunciation of Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu.
None of you is using Google, brainlets?
Jacob Allen
the phonetics of -ão are very perculiar
it's not as clean as saying -aun
Andrew Morgan
idk but Marco Polo looked Macaco Polo at first
Jackson Reed
Chinitos putos