Asian vs oriental person

oriental person vs Asian

Asian and oriental person both are nouns.

Asian is an adjective but oriental person is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
oriental person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, oriental person is a hyponym of Asian; that is, oriental person is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
oriental person: a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese.

Asian (noun)	oriental person (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)

Asian (adjective)	oriental person (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture

Difference between Asian and oriental person

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