Wa (Japan)
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wa-japan-183-7365113
title:
Wa (Japan)
text:
和 Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan and ethnonym of the Japanese people. From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive'', 'distant'', 'dwarf' to refer to the various inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, although it might have been just used to transcribe the phonetic value of a Japonic ethnonym with a respectively differing semantic connotation. In the 8th century, the Japanese started using the character 和, wa, 'harmony', 'peace', 'bal
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description:
Oldest recorded name of Japan
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japan)
date created:
2005-01-23T15:53:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T20:30:17Z
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