English

Noun

sansei ‎(plural sanseis)

1. A US- or Canadian-born grandchild of a Japanese immigrant to America.
   • 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience,” in Harold Coward and Leslie S. Kawamura eds., Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p 66:

     Under these circumstances it may not be unexpected to have the "assimilationist Sansei" protest that he is not a Japanese-Canadian; he is a Canadian, period. None of this hyphenated stuff.

See also

• issei
• nisei

References

• “sansei” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.

Anagrams

• anesis, anises, Inessa, sanies

Japanese

Romanization

sansei

1. rōmaji reading of さんせい