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日本人 is an exact match with one form of the following word:
日本人
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Readings : にほんじん    にっぽんじん   
日本人 can be read in 2 ways: にほんじん (80%), にっぽんじん (20%).
noun
Japanese person; Japanese people
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 2 (among the 1,500 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 152,121 which gives a rank of 1,104
日本人 is the most useful form. 2 additional forms are shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 4,000 (about 202,000,000 results)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 1237
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 1 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
Example sentences:
わたし
にほんじん
日本人
である
I am a Japanese.
まいとし
毎年
おお
にほんじん
日本人
かいがい
海外
りょこう
旅行
する

A number of Japanese people travel abroad every summer.
たいてい
にほんじん
日本人
すいどう
水道
みず
みます

Most Japanese drink water from the tap.
にほんじん
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 187,000 (about 349,000 results)
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 1 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
にほん人
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Reading : にほんじん   
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• This form is rarely used
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
ホン   book   もと origin   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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ジン   ニン   ひと person   
stick   
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