巨人
Chinese edit
very large; huge; tremendous very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic |
man; person; people | ||
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trad. (巨人) | 巨 | 人 | |
simp. #(巨人) | 巨 | 人 |
Pronunciation edit
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巨人
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Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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巨 | 人 |
きょ Grade: S |
じん Grade: 1 |
kan’on |
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 巨人 (MC gjoX nyin).
The professional baseball team is an abbreviation of one of its original names, the 東京巨人軍 (Tōkyō Kyojin-gun, “Tokyo Giants”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- [early 1900s] a giant:
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Idioms edit
- 小さな巨人 (chīsana kyojin, “small giant → someone who has a small physique but having a great talent”)
See also edit
- ジャイアント (jaianto)
Proper noun edit
- (baseball, colloquial) Synonym of 読売ジャイアンツ (Yomiuri Jaiantsu): the Yomiuri Giants
References edit
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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
Korean edit
Hanja in this term | |
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巨 | 人 |
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Vietnamese edit
chữ Hán Nôm in this term | |
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巨 | 人 |
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巨人