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The English word Japan possibly derives from the early Mandarin Chinese or Wu Chinese pronunciation of the Japanese name, 日本, which in Japanese is pronounced Nippon or Nihon.
The character nichi (日) means "sun" or "day" and hon (本) means "base" or "origin". The combination of these two syllables means "origin of the sun," which is westernized to "Land of the Rising Sun".
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