Hepburnn.
/ˈhɛpbəːn//ˈhɛbəːn/ Hepburn system n. a Romanized transcription of Japanese characters.
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Hepburn system1937
Wade-Giles1943
1867 J. C. Hepburn (title) A Japanese and English dictionary.]
1937 Mélanges Ling. et Philol. offerts à J. van Ginneken 358 It was this Hepburn system..which was adopted by the Romajikai.
1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 369/1 These [Japanese] sounds are transcribed into Roman letters, either by the Hepburn system..or by the Japanese system of ‘New spelling’... The outside world sticks to the Hepburn system.
Derivatives
Hepˈburnian adj.
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1937 Mélanges Ling. et Philol. offerts à J. van Ginneken 357 The Nipponsiki or Japanese system versus the Hepburnian system.
1950 D. Jones Phoneme 38 The old (Hepburnian) Roman writing of Japanese.
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