Asian

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪʒən/

The English word “Asian” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia, occasionally South Asia.
A person from or with ancestry in South Asia.
A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.

adjective

Of, relating to or from Asia.

Etymology

From Latin āsiānus. By surface analysis, Asia + -an. The modern North American and Australasian usage, referring to East and Southeast Asians collectively, seems to be a shortened form of "Asian American", a term whose origins activists and academics trace back to 1968 and University of California, Berkeley (UCLA) students Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, who, inspired by the Black Power Movement and…

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