Japanese native
The crossword clue "Japanese native" is answered by AINU, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AINU
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AINU answer page.
Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 6 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)
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
- Aboriginal Japanese - used 20 times, most recently in 2018
- 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
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