Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
かく > かっ
Grade: 5
こう
Grade: 4
kan’on on’yomi
Alternative spellings
カッコイイ
カッコいい
かっこ好い
格好良い
恰好いい
恰好良い

Etymology edit

Compound of 格好 (kakko, figure, shape, appearance, look, shortened reading from expected kakkō[1][2][3][4]) +‎ 良い (ii, good). First cited to a text from 1963.[5]

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Adjective edit

格好(かっこ)いい or (かっ)(こう)いい (kakkoii or kakkōii-i (adverbial 格好(かっこ)よく (kakkoyoku))

  1. [from 1963] handsome, good-looking, stylish, badass

Usage notes edit

  • The reading かっこういい (kakii) with the long "ō" is dated.

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References edit

  1. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  2. ^ 恰好”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  3. ^ かっこ好い”, in デジタル大辞泉[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ 恰好良”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[3] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  6. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN