Nintendo

Table of contents

1 Proper Noun 1.1 Variant Spelling 2 Etymology 3 Meaning 4 Further Reading

Proper Noun

Nintendo

Variant Spelling

Nintendou

Etymology

Japanese Ninten, "leave luck to heaven" or "in heaven's hands", + dou, a common suffix names of shops, laboratories, or companies.

Meaning

任天堂 (にんてんどう Nintendou)

1. A video game company and console manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan, originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi as a hanafuda company, and that changed into a video game company in the late 1900's.
2. The Nintendo Entertainment System.
3. A video game console manufactured by this company.

Further Reading

• Wikipedia article on Nintendo