sansei


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sansei /ˈsanseɪ/
noun (pl. same) N. Amer. an American or Canadian whose grandparents immigrated from Japan. Compare with nisei and issei.
– origin 1940s: Japanese, from san ‘third’ + sei ‘generation’.
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