女形

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Onnagata

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
女	形
おんな Grade: 1	かた > がた Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
女方

Compound of 女 (onna, “woman”) +‎ 形 (kata, “form”).^[1]^[2] The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) おんながた [òńnágátá] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
IPA^(key): [õ̞nːa̠ɡa̠ta̠]

Noun edit

女(おんな)形(がた) • (onnagata) ^{←をんながた (wonnagata)^?}

male actor who plays female roles in kabuki theater: onnagata

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
女	形
Grade: 1	Grade: 2
irregular

Alternative spellings
女方お山御山

Appears from the early Edo period, around the mid to late 1600s, originally in reference to doll figurines of courtesans made by Oyama Jirōsaburō (小山次郎三郎).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) おやま [óꜜyàmà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
(Tokyo) おやま [òyáꜜmà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[2]
IPA^(key): [o̞ja̠ma̠]

Noun edit

女形(おやま) • (oyama) ^{←をやま (woyama)^?}

male actor who plays female roles in kabuki theater: onnagata
in puppetry, a female puppet
(slang, possibly archaic, chiefly Kansai) a high-end prostitute

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[KDJ-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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