For those of you who speak Japanese...?

Question

I don't know how to spell it but I'll try to spell it out...What does "guy-jin" mean? It may be spelled guijin or something like that...

Answer 1

It's spelled gaijin and it means "outsider" or "foreigner". The more correct term is gaikokujin.

Answer 2

It literally means "outside person" and refers to anyone who is non-Japanese (including racially non-Japanese permanent residents and naturalized citizens--or their offspring), although in common usage today it usually means a white or black person and is acknowledged to be somewhat derogatory.

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Gaijin, a compound of two ideographs--the first meaning '"outside," external," "off the mark," "out of place," the second meaning "person," "human," "mankind"--inherently implied a sense not only of Japanese uniqueness but a definite qualitative distinction vis-a-vis everyone else, which was why, even in the nineties Japanese who lived in New York continued to call Americans they lived and worked among gaijin. Non-Japanese, even in their own country, were thus defined first and foremost by their otherness.

-- Robert Whiting, Tokyo Underworld, pg. 271

Answer 3

It does not mean merely 'foreigner'.
Most of japanese regard it as those who from European, African, West Asian, and American countries.

The people from east Asian countries(Chinese, Korean, Mongols and so on), are not including in Gaijin.

Gaijin means non-Mongoloid people.

Answer 4

it means "foreigner" to Japanese, "ga i jin"

Answer 5

foreigner in other word someone not japanese/from japan. So that would refer to any that doesnt have japanese background.

Answer 6

It's gaijin, and it means "a foreigner".

Answer 7

it means outsider i think

Answer 8

yea, basically it meand foriegner