Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
よこ
Grade: 3
かお > がお
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
橫顏 (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

First attested in 1682.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(よこ)(がお) (yokogaoよこがほ (yokogafo)?

  1. [from 1700] profile (someone's face seen from the side)
    Synonym: 輪郭 (rinkaku)
  2. [from 1934] profile (summary of information about a person)
    Synonym: プロフィール (purofīru)
  3. [from 1682] This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Verb edit

(よこ)(がお)する (yokogao surusuru (stem (よこ)(がお) (yokogao shi), past (よこ)(がお)した (yokogao shita))

  1. [from 1682] This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References edit

  1. ^ 横顔”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.