Asian

== English == === 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 the protests against the Vietnam War, founded the "Asian American Political Alliance" as a way to unite Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American students on campus. It replaced the term "Mongoloid", but still continued the racial grouping of "Mongoloid". The usage in Britain and some of its former colonies such as South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, stems from South Asians historically forming the bulk of immigrants from the continent of Asia to these places. In the rest of the Anglosphere, the word "Asian" is sometimes, albeit less frequently, used to refer to South Asians and Central Asians, but rarely (if ever) to Near Easterners. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈeɪʒən/, /ˈeɪʃən/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈæɪʒən/, /ˈæɪʃən/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən, -eɪʒən === Noun === Asian (plural Asians) A person from the continent of Asia, or a descendant thereof - especially: (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia, occasionally South Asia. (British, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda) A person from or with ancestry in South Asia. A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese. ==== Usage notes ==== The American usage of "Asian" (East, Southeast, sometimes South Asian) is internationally used outside of English (e.g. in Turkish, German, Swedish, Korean, French, etc.). ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:Asian (person from Asia): Oriental, Asiatic (person from east Asia): East Asian, Oriental, Oriental Asian, Chinese (loosely) (person from the Indian subcontinent): South Asian, Desi, Asian Indian, East Indian, Indian (loosely), Pakistani (loosely) ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === Asian (not comparable) Of, relating to or from Asia. ==== Synonyms ==== Asiatic ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Ansai, IANAS, naais