Illustration: In a Japanese relative's living room, a visiting Japanese American parent and child sit with an elderly aunt over a family album.

JLPT N1prefixLevel estimated by Bebop

日にっ系けい

nikkei

of Japanese descent

Used before words such as アメリカ人 and 人. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 日系にっけいアメリカ人じんです。

    I’m Japanese-American.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 日系にっけいアメリカ人じんの歴史れきしは19世紀末せいきまつの移民いみんに始はじまる。

    The history of Japanese Americans starts with their immigration at the end of the 19th century.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 彼かれは日系にっけい人じんだ。

    He is of Japanese ancestry.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 日系

  • 日sun; dayOnニチ・ジツKunひ
  • 系lineage; systemOnケイ

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