Romaji (noun)
ro-mu-jee
a system of writing Japanese using the letters of the Latin alphabet.
Romaji is a borrowing of Japanese rōma, “Rome, Roman,” combined with ji, “character.” Japanese ji can also be found in emoji, kanji.
Example sentences
“The Japanese text had to be rendered in romaji, so that gamers throughout Europe and the Americas were able to pronounce the game characters’ names.”
