nikkein.¹

Brit.

/ˈnɪkeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈniˌkeɪ/

Inflections: Plural unchanged.

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese nikkei.

Etymology: < Japanese nikkei Japanese descent < nik- , combining form (before k ) of nichi- Japan (representing the first element of Nihon Nippon n.) + -kei lineage, line of descent, both < Middle Chinese. Compare later nikkeijin n.

A person of Japanese descent who has settled or been brought up abroad, esp. a member of any one of the first four generations of Japanese people to settle in the Americas; a nikkeijin. Frequently attributive.The nikkei community is made up primarily of the four generations known as Issei, Nisei (see nisei n.), Sansei (see sansei n.), and Yonsei.

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1945 F. E. La Violette Amer. of Japanese Ancestry i. 8 The name kibei has been given to such American-born but Japan-reared offspring. [Note] The full term is kibei-nikkei, literally ‘second generation returned to North America’ [sic]. In English only kibei is used.

1952 D. Thomas Salvage i. 60 In 1929 the San Francisco forerunner of the Japanese American Citizens League launched an all-English semimonthly publication, Nikkei Shimin, which shortly changed its name to the Pacific Citizen.]

1969 H. H. L. Kitano Japanese Americans vi. 95 There is the Nikkei Lions in the San Francisco Bay area. All of these groups are typically ‘American’ except that their membership is primarily Japanese.

1985 MELUS Autumn 34 This sensibility, rooted in Naomi's nikkei inheritance and her before-the-war Vancouver home, is..a form of Japanese Canadian and American culture.

1989 Amer. Lit. Hist. 1 91 In the Japan-hating mainstream culture beyond the camps, there was virtually no outlet for Nikkei literature.

1991 Latin Amer. Weekly Rep. 22 Aug. 1 Though Latin America's Japanese community, or rather the nikkei who descend from Japanese immigrants, have been around for quite some time, their profile remained relatively low until 1990, when the region got its first nikkei President, Alberto Fujimori of Peru.

1998 Vancouver Sun 29 Aug. b1 This was ‘The Orchard’—row upon row of crude cedar shacks housing more than 1500 of the nikkei who were forcibly relocated after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Nikkein.²

Brit.

/ˈnɪkeɪ/,

/nɪˈkeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈniˌkeɪ/

Forms: 1900s– Nikei, 1900s– Nikkei.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese Nikkei.

Etymology: < Japanese Nikkei < Nik- (representing the first element of Nihon Japan: see nikkei n.¹) + kei- (in keizai economy, finance; < Middle Chinese) in the name Nihon Keizai Shimbun Japan Economic Journal, Japan's principal economic journal and financial daily newspaper (founded in 1876 and bearing its present name since 1946), which publishes the index. In Nikkei average probably after Japanese Nikkei-heikinkabuka, lit. ‘Nikkei average stock price’.Compare the following earlier example of a different shortening of the newspaper title (with a long vowel in the first syllable) in an English context:1960 B. De Mente Japanese Manners & Ethics Business 97 Very much surprised, I arranged a conference with the Nihon Keizai, the largest economic paper in the country, to find why no one had tried to pick up the columns and to see if at least ‘Ni-kei’ couldn't be prevailed upon to use them.

I. Compounds. Usually with the.

1. General attributive, esp. as Nikkei index. Designating an index of the relative price of representative shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also (esp. in early use) more fully Nikkei-Dow(-Jones). Also with following numeral, indicating the number of companies whose shares are indexed, esp. in Nikkei 225. Cf. Dow Jones n., Footsie n.²The index was originally calculated (from 1949) by the Tokyo Stock Exchange itself, but from 1974 it has been calculated by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Japan Economic Journal.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock index

FT Index1960

Hang Seng index1969

Nikkei-Dow(-Jones)1970

Footsie1984

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > relative price or average (system)

Dow Jones1908

Nikkei-Dow(-Jones)1970

Nikkei average1975

1970 R. Toyohira in T. Yamamoto Rainbow: Hist. Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce 232/1 There are over ten Nikkei companies active in this field, the majority of which were founded after the mid-1950's.

1974 Japan Econ. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 1/5 The Nihon Keizai Shimbun has completed a composite daily index of most sensitive commodities, called the Nikkei Index of Commodity Prices, and begun printing it in its editions.

1988 Financial Times 14 Oct. 19/1 The Nikkei index of leading shares is comfortably above its pre-crash high.

1992 Investors Chron. 23 Oct. 22/3 The stabilisation of the Japanese Nikkei Dow index..ensures that market sentiment towards the yen will remain broadly positive.

1995 Time (Nexis) 10 July 146/2 45 The Nikkei index of Tokyo stock-market prices is down.

1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. 24/3 The Topix index of first-section shares advanced 5.79 to 1,530.83 and the Nikkei 300 edged 0.92 higher to 298.69.

2003 Daily Yomiuri 5 Mar. 11/1 In Osaka, the near-term March Nikkei 225 index futures contract was down 50 points.

2016 Times (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Business) 46 The yen has weakened against the dollar since September..and yesterday the Nikkei index closed up 1.7 per cent at a ninemonth high of 17,672.62.

a. Nikkei average n. an average of the prices quoted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also (esp. before 1985) more fully Nikkei Dow(-Jones) average.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > relative price or average (system)

Dow Jones1908

Nikkei-Dow(-Jones)1970

Nikkei average1975

1975 Bank of Japan Econ. Statistics Monthly Apr. 111 (table) Principal Stock Price Indicators... Tokyo Stock Price Index..(Base Period Jan. 4, 1968)... The Nikkei Dow Jones averages (T.S.E. 225 selected stocks)..(Base period..May 16, 1949 (176.21)).

1979 Burroughs Clearing House Apr. 36/3 During last year the Nikkei Dow average rose over 25%.

1979 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 18 May 104/1 The 225-stock Nikkei Dow Jones Average climbed to three consecutive all-time records.

1992 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 11 Dec. 16 Tokyo stock prices rose moderately Wednesday on an improved volume after news of possible adjustments to the formula by which the Nikkei average is calculated.

1996 H. Shilling Internat. Guide Securities Market Indices viii. 305 Joint calculation of the index commenced in May 1975 under an agreement with Dow Jones & Co., during which time the index became known as the Nikkei Dow Average.

2016 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Apr. The rate cut had an immediate knock-on effect, sending shares on the Nikkei average up by more than 500 points early on Friday afternoon.

b. Nikkei exchange n. the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange > specific

Britain's Burse1570

Exchange Alley1706

house1814

board1837

bourse1845

Throgmorton Street1891

Amex1953

LME1957

LIFFE1982

Nikkei exchange1987

Alternative Investment Market1994

1987 Wall St. Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Oct. 39 Tokyo's Nikkei exchange gains 334.48 points.

1998 B. Parker Globalization & Business Pract. 236 Betting on a healthy Japanese stock market by trading in futures contracts and options contracts on the Nikkei Exchange.

2013 M. Pocalyko Navigator ii. 29 Calls for the immediate resignation of your directors after trading in certain issues on the Nikkei Exchange is suspended after a few hours.

II. Simple uses.

3. With the. The Nikkei index, average, or exchange; also (esp. in early use) more fully Nikkei-Dow(-Jones). Also: the Nikkei Keizai Shimbun newspaper.

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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > titles of newspapers

observator1642

mercury1643

post1645

examiner1710

echo1729

times1788

mail1789

messenger1796

thunderer1830

anti-Jacobin1867

Trib1878

Nikkei1982

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > index of

index1886

price index1886

retail price index1904

index figure1927

All Ords1958

Nikkei1982

1982 S. Bronte Japanese Finance xv. 176/2 Originally calculated by Dow-Jones and Company of the United States, the Nikkei-Dow is an arithmetic average of the stock prices of 225 leading stocks on May 16, 1959, multiplied by a constant which has been continually adjusted for capital increases.

1986 Euromoney Corporate Finance Sept. 28/2 Osaka has also announced plans to start trading a stock index future based on the Nikkei Dow Jones by the end of the year.

1989 Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. He ends with a prediction that the Nikkei will finish the year at 37,398, up 15%.

1991 N.Y. Times 28 July f 13 It is ironic that so many Westerners—who shunned the Japanese stock market in the 80's, considering it overvalued or rigged—will find their fate inexorably tied to the Nikkei.

1995 Scotsman (Nexis) 28 Feb. 21 The Bank explored several options such as persuading the Japanese institutions who owned shares traded on the Nikkei..to cap the losses.

2002 Daily Yomiuri 28 Sept. We were heartened by the front-page article in the Nikkei.

2017 Times (Nexis) 18 May 41 The Nikkei closed down by 0.5 per cent at 19,814.88.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nikkei
释义	nikkein.¹ Brit. /ˈnɪkeɪ/, U.S. /ˈniˌkeɪ/ Inflections: Plural unchanged. Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese nikkei. Etymology: < Japanese nikkei Japanese descent < nik- , combining form (before k ) of nichi- Japan (representing the first element of Nihon Nippon n.) + -kei lineage, line of descent, both < Middle Chinese. Compare later nikkeijin n. A person of Japanese descent who has settled or been brought up abroad, esp. a member of any one of the first four generations of Japanese people to settle in the Americas; a nikkeijin. Frequently attributive.The nikkei community is made up primarily of the four generations known as Issei, Nisei (see nisei n.), Sansei (see sansei n.), and Yonsei. ΚΠ 1945 F. E. La Violette Amer. of Japanese Ancestry i. 8 The name kibei has been given to such American-born but Japan-reared offspring. [Note] The full term is kibei-nikkei, literally ‘second generation returned to North America’ [sic]. In English only kibei is used. 1952 D. Thomas Salvage i. 60 In 1929 the San Francisco forerunner of the Japanese American Citizens League launched an all-English semimonthly publication, Nikkei Shimin, which shortly changed its name to the Pacific Citizen.] 1969 H. H. L. Kitano Japanese Americans vi. 95 There is the Nikkei Lions in the San Francisco Bay area. All of these groups are typically ‘American’ except that their membership is primarily Japanese. 1985 MELUS Autumn 34 This sensibility, rooted in Naomi's nikkei inheritance and her before-the-war Vancouver home, is..a form of Japanese Canadian and American culture. 1989 Amer. Lit. Hist. 1 91 In the Japan-hating mainstream culture beyond the camps, there was virtually no outlet for Nikkei literature. 1991 Latin Amer. Weekly Rep. 22 Aug. 1 Though Latin America's Japanese community, or rather the nikkei who descend from Japanese immigrants, have been around for quite some time, their profile remained relatively low until 1990, when the region got its first nikkei President, Alberto Fujimori of Peru. 1998 Vancouver Sun 29 Aug. b1 This was ‘The Orchard’—row upon row of crude cedar shacks housing more than 1500 of the nikkei who were forcibly relocated after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Nikkein.² Brit. /ˈnɪkeɪ/, /nɪˈkeɪ/, U.S. /ˈniˌkeɪ/ Forms: 1900s– Nikei, 1900s– Nikkei. Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese Nikkei. Etymology: < Japanese Nikkei < Nik- (representing the first element of Nihon Japan: see nikkei n.¹) + kei- (in keizai economy, finance; < Middle Chinese) in the name Nihon Keizai Shimbun Japan Economic Journal, Japan's principal economic journal and financial daily newspaper (founded in 1876 and bearing its present name since 1946), which publishes the index. In Nikkei average probably after Japanese Nikkei-heikinkabuka, lit. ‘Nikkei average stock price’.Compare the following earlier example of a different shortening of the newspaper title (with a long vowel in the first syllable) in an English context:1960 B. De Mente Japanese Manners & Ethics Business 97 Very much surprised, I arranged a conference with the Nihon Keizai, the largest economic paper in the country, to find why no one had tried to pick up the columns and to see if at least ‘Ni-kei’ couldn't be prevailed upon to use them. I. Compounds. Usually with the. 1. General attributive, esp. as Nikkei index. Designating an index of the relative price of representative shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also (esp. in early use) more fully Nikkei-Dow(-Jones). Also with following numeral, indicating the number of companies whose shares are indexed, esp. in Nikkei 225. Cf. Dow Jones n., Footsie n.²The index was originally calculated (from 1949) by the Tokyo Stock Exchange itself, but from 1974 it has been calculated by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Japan Economic Journal. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock index FT Index1960 Hang Seng index1969 Nikkei-Dow(-Jones)1970 Footsie1984 society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > relative price or average (system) Dow Jones1908 Nikkei-Dow(-Jones)1970 Nikkei average1975 1970 R. Toyohira in T. Yamamoto Rainbow: Hist. Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce 232/1 There are over ten Nikkei companies active in this field, the majority of which were founded after the mid-1950's. 1974 Japan Econ. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 1/5 The Nihon Keizai Shimbun has completed a composite daily index of most sensitive commodities, called the Nikkei Index of Commodity Prices, and begun printing it in its editions. 1988 Financial Times 14 Oct. 19/1 The Nikkei index of leading shares is comfortably above its pre-crash high. 1992 Investors Chron. 23 Oct. 22/3 The stabilisation of the Japanese Nikkei Dow index..ensures that market sentiment towards the yen will remain broadly positive. 1995 Time (Nexis) 10 July 146/2 45 The Nikkei index of Tokyo stock-market prices is down. 1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. 24/3 The Topix index of first-section shares advanced 5.79 to 1,530.83 and the Nikkei 300 edged 0.92 higher to 298.69. 2003 Daily Yomiuri 5 Mar. 11/1 In Osaka, the near-term March Nikkei 225 index futures contract was down 50 points. 2016 Times (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Business) 46 The yen has weakened against the dollar since September..and yesterday the Nikkei index closed up 1.7 per cent at a ninemonth high of 17,672.62. 2. a. Nikkei average n. an average of the prices quoted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also (esp. before 1985) more fully Nikkei Dow(-Jones) average. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > relative price or average (system) Dow Jones1908 Nikkei-Dow(-Jones)1970 Nikkei average1975 1975 Bank of Japan Econ. Statistics Monthly Apr. 111 (table) Principal Stock Price Indicators... Tokyo Stock Price Index..(Base Period Jan. 4, 1968)... The Nikkei Dow Jones averages (T.S.E. 225 selected stocks)..(Base period..May 16, 1949 (176.21)). 1979 Burroughs Clearing House Apr. 36/3 During last year the Nikkei Dow average rose over 25%. 1979 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 18 May 104/1 The 225-stock Nikkei Dow Jones Average climbed to three consecutive all-time records. 1992 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 11 Dec. 16 Tokyo stock prices rose moderately Wednesday on an improved volume after news of possible adjustments to the formula by which the Nikkei average is calculated. 1996 H. Shilling Internat. Guide Securities Market Indices viii. 305 Joint calculation of the index commenced in May 1975 under an agreement with Dow Jones & Co., during which time the index became known as the Nikkei Dow Average. 2016 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Apr. The rate cut had an immediate knock-on effect, sending shares on the Nikkei average up by more than 500 points early on Friday afternoon. b. Nikkei exchange n. the Tokyo Stock Exchange. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange > specific Britain's Burse1570 Exchange Alley1706 house1814 board1837 bourse1845 Throgmorton Street1891 Amex1953 LME1957 LIFFE1982 Nikkei exchange1987 Alternative Investment Market1994 1987 Wall St. Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Oct. 39 Tokyo's Nikkei exchange gains 334.48 points. 1998 B. Parker Globalization & Business Pract. 236 Betting on a healthy Japanese stock market by trading in futures contracts and options contracts on the Nikkei Exchange. 2013 M. Pocalyko Navigator ii. 29 Calls for the immediate resignation of your directors after trading in certain issues on the Nikkei Exchange is suspended after a few hours. II. Simple uses. 3. With the. The Nikkei index, average, or exchange; also (esp. in early use) more fully Nikkei-Dow(-Jones). Also: the Nikkei Keizai Shimbun newspaper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > titles of newspapers observator1642 mercury1643 post1645 examiner1710 echo1729 times1788 mail1789 messenger1796 thunderer1830 anti-Jacobin1867 Trib1878 Nikkei1982 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > index of index1886 price index1886 retail price index1904 index figure1927 All Ords1958 Nikkei1982 1982 S. Bronte Japanese Finance xv. 176/2 Originally calculated by Dow-Jones and Company of the United States, the Nikkei-Dow is an arithmetic average of the stock prices of 225 leading stocks on May 16, 1959, multiplied by a constant which has been continually adjusted for capital increases. 1986 Euromoney Corporate Finance Sept. 28/2 Osaka has also announced plans to start trading a stock index future based on the Nikkei Dow Jones by the end of the year. 1989 Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. He ends with a prediction that the Nikkei will finish the year at 37,398, up 15%. 1991 N.Y. Times 28 July f 13 It is ironic that so many Westerners—who shunned the Japanese stock market in the 80's, considering it overvalued or rigged—will find their fate inexorably tied to the Nikkei. 1995 Scotsman (Nexis) 28 Feb. 21 The Bank explored several options such as persuading the Japanese institutions who owned shares traded on the Nikkei..to cap the losses. 2002 Daily Yomiuri 28 Sept. We were heartened by the front-page article in the Nikkei. 2017 Times (Nexis) 18 May 41 The Nikkei closed down by 0.5 per cent at 19,814.88. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1969n.²1970
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