キャラクター
Japanese edit
Alternative forms edit
- (shortening) キャラ (kyara)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English character.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
First attested in 1875.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Tokyo) キャラクター [kyáꜜràk
ùtàà] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5][6] - (Tokyo) キャラクター [kyàráꜜk
ùtàà] (Nakadaka – [2])[4][5][6] - IPA(key): [kʲa̠ɾa̠kɯ̟̊ᵝta̠ː]
Noun edit
- character, a fictitious person or creature
- Synonym: 登場人物 (tōjō jinbutsu, literally “appearing person”, as in “appearing in this story”)
- 2013 [2012], Hideaki Sorachi, “第四百十四訓 愚か者‼”, in [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) ([銀](ぎん)[魂](たま)), volume 47 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha:
- そうか お前達も気づいていたか この漫画マゲのヅラをかぶったらほとんどのキャラがほぼ皆同じ顔になる事を
- Sō ka Omae-tachi mo kizuite ita ka Kono manga mage no zura o kabuttara hotondo no kyara ga hobo mina onaji kao ni naru koto o
- I see. So you all realized it, too. If you put on this topknot wig then pretty much all the characters in this manga look the same.
- そうか お前達も気づいていたか この漫画マゲのヅラをかぶったらほとんどのキャラがほぼ皆同じ顔になる事を
- personality
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “キャラクター”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ “キャラクター”, in デジタル大辞泉[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ^ “キャラクター”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN