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The name for Japan in Japanese is written using the kanji ζ—₯本 and is pronounced Nippon or Nihon.[9] Before ζ—₯本 was adopted in the early 8th century, the country was known in China as Wa (ε€­, changed in Japan around 757 to ε’Œ) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato.[10] Nippon, the original Sino-Japanese reading of the characters, is favored for official uses, including on banknotes and postage stamps.[9] Nihon is typically used in everyday speech and reflects shifts in Japanese phonology during the Edo period.[10] The characters ζ—₯本 mean “sun origin”,[9] which is the source of the popular Western epithet “Land of the Rising Sun”

The name “Japan” is based on Chinese pronunciations of ζ—₯本 and was introduced to European languages through early trade. In the 13th century, Marco Polo recorded the early Mandarin or Wu Chinese pronunciation of the characters ζ—₯ζœ¬εœ‹ as Cipangu.[12] The old Malay name for Japan, Japang or Japun, was borrowed from a southern coastal Chinese dialect and encountered by Portuguese traders in Southeast Asia, who brought the word to Europe in the early 16th century.[13] The first version of the name in English appears in a book published in 1577, which spelled the name as Giapan in a translation of a 1565 Portuguese letter

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