sayōnara

From Japanese さようなら (sayōnara).

sayōnara

1. Alternative form of sayonara.
   • 1922, Kurata Hyakuzo, translated by Glenn W[illiam] Shaw, The Priest and His Disciples: A Play […], Tokyo: Hokuseido […]; Foreign Division, Kyo Bun Kwan, →OCLC, act I, scene ii, page 58:

     Okane. Please take good care of yourself (Her eyes fill with tears.) Jien. Day’s begun to break. Ryōkan. And the snow seems to have stopped. Shinran. Then sayōnara. Saemon. Sayōnara. Okane. Sayōnara. (To Matsuwaka.) Come, say sayōnara. Matsuwaka. Uncle, sayōnara. Shinran (folding Matsuwaka in the sleeve of his robe). Sayōnara. Please grow up big and great.

   • 1998, Jim Riva, The Geographer, United States: Soaring Sparrow Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     Most of the veterans started off in the language schools, but they’d long ago said sayōnara and jumped off that one-for-you/five-for-me merry-go-round.

   • 2016 December 2, Michelle Santos, “Sayōnara… Life-size Gundam Statue in Tokyo will be Removed Permanently”, in Ungeek‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 December 2016:

     Sayōnara, Gundam RX-78-2 giant suit.

   • 2017 January 6, David Ryan Polgar, “Sayōnara, Humans: Japanese Company Replaces Its Workers with AI”, in Big Think‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 September 2021
   • 2021 July 31, Barry Glendenning, “Tokyo 2020 Olympics: mixed triathlon relay, athletics blasts off and more – as it happened”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 July 2021:

     Sayōnara from me. The Guardian’s American bureau are taking over on a brand, spanking new Day Eight blog which you can follow here.

   • 2022 March 14, Justin McCurry, “Why are Tokyo residents saying sayōnara to Japan’s capital?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 March 2022:

     Population of world’s most populous city fell in 2021 for first time in more than 25 years, thanks in part to the pandemic

   • 2025 September 19, Louise Evans, Mike Osborne, “Gout says sad Sayōnara to Tokyo”, in Sportshounds‎^[5], archived from the original on 25 November 2025

sayōnara (plural sayōnaras)

1. Alternative form of sayonara.
   • 1991, Pico Iyer, “Autumn”, in The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto, London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, chapter 8, page 73:

     Here, I thought, was a team in last place, thirty-six games out of first place, which had lost two games out of every three for more than six months—yet still its faithful were rising to give it this heartfelt show of support. Sayōnaras were hosannas here.

   • 2006, Marion Taylor, “Good Samaritans”, in American Geisha, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2013, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Four chocolate bars and seven packages of chewing gum changed hands and then with a flurry of waves and “Sayōnaras” we were off.

   • 2018 December 14, Lil Wayne, Sam Martin, XXXTentacion, Infamous, Eskeerdo, “Scared of the Dark”, in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, New York, N.Y.: Republic Records, →OCLC:

     I'm behind the trigger, what if I am the target? / Deep sigh, a sayōnara, I ain't afraid to die / It's either goodbye or good mornin’, and the skies start to fallin’

   • 2023, Wolf O'Rourc, “Essential Go”, in CyberFurry: An Interactive Coming of Age Action Thriller Novel, Las Vegas, Nev.: RoRo, →ISBN:

     The door handle clacked against its stop twice. High time for his sayōnara.

   • 2024 May 8, Tony Noble, “Brighton heading for Japan… hopefully not as sayōnara to Mitoma”, in WeAreBrighton.com‎^[6], archived from the original on 22 May 2024

sayōnara

1. Rōmaji transcription of さようなら
2. Rōmaji transcription of さよーなら