異い人じん

noun

foreigner; Westerner

Often used for a foreigner of European ancestry; can sound old-fashioned or literary in modern Japanese. 外国人 is the neutral modern term.

• 明めい治じ時じ代だい、異い人じんたちが横よこ浜はまに多おおく住すんでいた。

  In the Meiji era, many foreigners lived in Yokohama.

noun

different person; another person

Used to emphasize that someone is a different individual, not the same person. Often appears in contrastive contexts.

• 彼かれは以い前ぜんとはまるで異い人じんのようだ。

  He seems like a completely different person from before.