Wa

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Wa is an ancient Chinese exonym historically used to refer to the people and early polities of the Japanese archipelago.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Chinese exonym
historical ethnonym
associatedWith Japan NERFINISHED
Yamato polity NERFINISHED
category exonyms for Japan
historical names of countries
culturalContext Sino-Japanese relations
describedAs people of Wa
ethnonymFor Japanese people
geographicalScope Japanese archipelago NERFINISHED
historicalRelation precursor term to Nihon
languageOfOrigin Chinese
mentionedIn Book of Wei NERFINISHED
Book of the Later Han NERFINISHED
Records of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED
notableSubgroup Yamatai NERFINISHED
perceivedAs foreign people to Chinese dynasties
politicalContext early Japanese polities
refersTo early polities of the Japanese archipelago
people of the Japanese archipelago
refersToModernEntity Japan NERFINISHED
region East Asia
relatedTerm Nihon NERFINISHED
Yamato NERFINISHED
scriptUsed Chinese characters
timePeriod ancient period
usedAs name for Japan in Chinese diplomacy NERFINISHED
usedBy ancient Chinese sources
usedIn Chinese historical texts

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yamato exonym Wa
subject surface form: Yamato people
YN hasEthnicGroup Wa
Wa people ethnonym Wa