キャラクター
Japanese
Alternative forms
- (shortening) キャラ (kyara)
Etymology
Borrowed from English character.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
First attested in 1875.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) キャラクター [kyáꜜràk
ùtàà] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5][6] - (Tokyo) キャラクター [kyàráꜜk
ùtàà] (Nakadaka – [2])[4][5][6] - IPA(key): [kʲa̠ɾa̠kɯ̟̊ᵝta̠ː]
Noun
キャラクター • (kyarakutā)
- character, a fictitious person or creature
- Synonym: 登場人物 (tōjō jinbutsu, literally “appearing person”, as in “appearing in this story”)
- 2013 [2012], Sorachi, Hideaki, “第四百十四訓 愚か者‼ [Lesson 414: Imbeciles!!]”, in 銀魂 [Silver Soul], volume 47 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha:
- そうか お前達も気づいていたか この漫画マゲのヅラをかぶったらほとんどのキャラがほぼ皆同じ顔になる事を
- Sō ka Omae-tachi mo kizuite ita ka Kono manga mage no zura o kabuttara hotondo no kyara ga hobo mina onaji kao ni naru koto o
- I see. So you all realized it, too. If you put on this topknot wig then pretty much all the characters in this manga look the same.
- そうか お前達も気づいていたか この漫画マゲのヅラをかぶったらほとんどのキャラがほぼ皆同じ顔になる事を
- personality
- Synonym: 性格 (seikaku)
- 漫画みたいにキャラが立ってる
- manga mitai ni kyara ga tatteru
- having a distinct personality, as if they were a comic book character
- […] をするのは田中さんのキャラじゃない
- […] o suru no wa Tanaka-san no kyara ja nai
- doing […] is unlike Tanaka (is not Tanaka's personality; is out of character for Tanaka)
Derived terms
- 陰キャ (inkya)
References
- “キャラクター”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
- “キャラクター”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- “キャラクター”, in 世界大百科事典 第2版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN