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Hepburn|ˈhɛpbɜːn, ˈhɛbɜːn|
The name of J. C. Hepburn (1815–1911), Amer. physician and missionary, used attrib. in Hepburn system, a Romanized transcription of Japanese characters. So Hepˈburnian a.
[1867J. C. Hepburn (title) A Japanese and English dictionary.] 1937Mélanges Ling. et Phil. offerts à J. van Ginneken 357 The Nipponsiki or Japanese system versus the Hepburnian system. Ibid. 358 It was this Hepburn system..which was adopted by the Romajikai. 1950D. Jones Phoneme 38 The old (Hepburnian) Roman writing of Japanese. 1961T. 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. |