- Asian, oriental - denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java; "Oriental politeness"; "for people of South and East Asian ancestry the term `Asian' is preferred to `Oriental'"; "Asian ancestry"
Antonym: western (indirect, via eastern)
- Oriental, oriental person - a member of an Oriental race
--1 is a kind of Asian, Asiatic
--1 is a member of Yellow race, Mongoloid race, Mongolian race
--1 has particulars:yellow man; yellow woman; gook, slant-eye; Evenki, Ewenki; Mongol, Mongolian