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First opened Saturday, October 13, 2007

バイバイ

バイバイ

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bye bye

JLPT N2interjection (kandoushi)colloquial外来語 · LoanwordBorrowing

Baibai is borrowed from English bye-bye, attested from at least the 1930s.

Taken apart

  1. バイバイ

    バイバイ

    English bye-bye

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In a sentence

  • 診察(しんさつ)室(しつ)を出(で)る間際(まぎわ)、先生(せんせい)が「バイバイ」と手(て)を振(ふ)ってくださいました。

    Just as we were leaving the exam room the doctor waved his hand saying, 'bye-bye'.

    Tatoeba #74620, translation #329099

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

  • “Borrowed from English bye-bye. Attested from at least the 1930s.”

Source: Wiktionary: バイバイ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

外来語 Loanword
Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
Borrowing
Taken over from another language.

Also read バイバイ

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • バイバイThis word

    bye bye

    No pitch accent shown

  • 売買

    trade, buying and selling

    ば↓いばい head-high (atamadaka)

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