マスク

Japanese edit

Policemen wearing gauze masks.

マスク on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English mask.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) マスク [máꜜsùkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ma̠sɨ̥ᵝkɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun edit

マスク • (masuku)

a mask (cover for the face), especially a gauze mask
- 1997 July 9, Kazuki Takahashi, “アメリカン・ヒーロー〈後(こう)編(へん)〉”, in 遊(ゆう)☆戯(ぎ)☆王(おう), volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 81:
  
  友(とも)也(や)…パパは間(ま)違(ちが)っていたよ……このマスクに隠(かく)れていた…友(とも)達(だち)のために傷(きず)ついた顔(かお)こそが本(ほん)当(とう)のヒーローの顔(かお)だったんだね…
  Tomoya… papa wa machigatte ita yo…… Kono masuku ni kakurete ita… tomodachi no tame ni kizutsuita kao koso ga hontō no hīrō no kao datta n da ne…
  Tomoya… I was wrong… Under this mask… the face that took a beating for friends, was the true face of a hero…
looks, features

Synonyms edit

(looks): 顔(かお)立(だ)ち (kaodachi)

Hyponyms edit

(facial covering): 布(ぬの)マスク (nuno masuku, “cloth mask”)

See also edit

仮(か)面(めん) (kamen)
面(めん) (men)

ムスク (musuku)

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ “マスク”, in デジタル大辞泉‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
^ 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

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