Aboriginal Japanese

The answer

AINU

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AINU answer page.

Used 20 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• AINO (1 uses in xd)
• AINUS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for AINU

Every other clue in this collection answered by AINU, most used first.

• Hokkaido native - used 27 times, most recently in 2018
• Japanese native - used 21 times, most recently in 2017
• Indigenous people of Japan - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Indigenous Japanese - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
• Japanese aboriginal - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Japanese primitive. - used 11 times, most recently in 2005
• Early Japanese - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
• Indigenous Japanese people - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Japanese wrestling - SUMO, used 118 times
• Japanese noodle - UDON, used 116 times
• Japanese soup - MISO, used 88 times
• Thick Japanese noodle - UDON, used 57 times
• ___-Japanese War - SINO, used 54 times
• Japanese wrestling form - SUMO, used 40 times

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