マスク

マスク

Japanese

Policemen wearing gauze masks.

Etymology

Borrowed from English mask.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

マスク • (masuku) 

1. a mask (cover for the face), especially a gauze mask
   • 1997 July 9, “アメリカン・ヒーロー〈後(こう)編(へん)〉 [American Hero ‹Last Chapter›]”, in 遊(ゆう)☆戯(ぎ)☆王(おう) [King of Games], 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…

2. looks, features

Synonyms

• (looks): 顔(かお)立(だ)ち (kaodachi)

Hyponyms

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

See also

• 仮(か)面(めん) (kamen)
• 面(めん) (men)

• ムスク (musuku)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. “マスク”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN