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konnichiwa

interjection

konnichiwa is an interjection meaning “Good day, good afternoon; (loosely) hello” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-N-N-I-C-H-I-W-A, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does konnichiwa mean?

interjection

  1. 1

    informalGood day, good afternoon; (loosely) hello.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of konnichiwa

  • konnichi wa

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is konnichiwa?

Konnichiwa appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does konnichiwa come from?

Borrowed from Japanese 今(こん)日(にち)は (konnichi wa).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).