First opened Friday, August 14, 2009
アジア
アジア
Pitch accent: We don't have the data for this section. No accent list gives this spelling and reading, or the two we check against disagree.
Asia
Asia comes through Dutch — and the kanji for it came from Chinese.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Tatoeba export has no sentence with a translation that uses this word and passes our filter.
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.
Not settled
Wiktionary itself hedges on part of this word's origin — those lines are marked below.
- Hedged“Probably from Dutch Azië.”
- “Kanji form from Chinese 亞細亞 /亚细亚 (Yàxìyà)”
Source: Wiktionary: アジア (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.