Wednesday, 27 July 2016

What is the longest word in Japanese?


What is the longest (based on their representation in romaji) word in Japanese? Are there any longer than リュウグウノオトヒメノモトユイノキリハズシ? If it depends on criteria for a word, then list them by their criteria.


Background: I'm wanting to use a long word for a JRuby bug report, and I think that floccinaucinihilipilification is pretty worthless. Wikipedia's article on Longest words (by language) is currently lacking an entry for Japanese.





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