若輩

Japanese

Kanji in this term
若	輩
Grade: 6	Grade: S

Alternative forms

Kanji: 弱輩
Hiragana: じゃくはい
Katakana: ジャクハイ
Romaji: jakuhai, zyakuhai; jacufai (obsolete)

Noun

若輩 (hiragana じゃくはい, katakana ジャクハイ, rōmaji jakuhai)

A youth; a young person.
- 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium, p. 9
  Adoleſcens . moço . jacu fai .
- 1867: James Curtis Hepburn, A Japanese and English Dictionary, p. 152
  Jaku-hai, ジャクハイ, 若輩, (wakaki tomogara). Young, immature in knowledge or experience, (used also in humbling one’s self.)

Synonyms

年少者

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