Japanese edit

 シルエット on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French silhouette.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

シルエット (shiruetto

  1. a silhouette
    • 2007 October 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “(だい)(ひゃく)(ろく)(じゅう)(きゅう)(くん) ()かれないものほど(いと)おしい [Lesson 169: Unlikable Things Are Adorable]”, in (ぎん)(たま) ((ぎん)(たま)) [Silver Soul], volume 20 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      いいか (たと)えば このギンタさんをシルエットにしてみよう ホラ()ろコレ なんの(とく)(ちょう)もねーだろ こういうキャラは()(ども)(おぼ)えてくれません‼シルエットだけで()()けがつく(くらい)じゃねーと(しょう)(ねん)(まん)()はやってけねーんだよ
      Ii ka tatoeba kono Ginta-san o shiruetto ni shitemiyō Hora miro kore Nan no tokuchō mo nē daro Kō iu kyara wa kodomo wa oboete kuremasen‼ Shiruetto dake de miwake ga tsuku kurai ja nē to shōnen manga wa yatte ke nēn da yo
      Now check out Ginta-san’s silhouette. Could he be less distinctive? Kids don’t remember this kinda character. If a character can’t be recognized by his silhouette alone, he’ll never survive in the world of boys’ manga.

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 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