活字

活字

Chinese

		to live; alive; living to live; alive; living; work; workmanship	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
simp. and trad. (活字)		活	字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huózì

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wut⁶ zi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huózì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huózìh
    • Wade–Giles: huo²-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: hwó-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwotzyh
    • Palladius: хоцзы (xoczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xwɔ³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wut⁶ zi⁶
    • Yale: wuht jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wut⁹ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wud⁶ ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːt̚² t͡siː²²/

Noun

活字

1. movable type

   泥活字  ―  ní huózì  ―  ceramic movable type

   鐵活字／铁活字  ―  tiě huózì  ―  metallic movable type

   鉛活字／铅活字  ―  qiān huózì  ―  lead movable type

Derived terms

活字印刷 (huózì yìnshuā) 活字版

活字印刷術／活字印刷术 (huózì yìnshuāshù)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
活	字
かつ Grade: 2	じ Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かつじ [kàtsújí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠t͡sɨᵝʑi]

Noun

活(かつ)字(じ) • (katsuji) ^{←くわつじ (kwatuzi)?}

1. movable type
   • 1934, 宮沢賢治(みやざわけんじ) [Miyazawa Kenji], 銀河鉄道(ぎんがてつどう)の夜(よる) (Ginga tetsudō no yoru) [Night on the Galactic Railroad]‎:

     ジョバンニは何(なん)べんも眼(め)を拭(ぬぐ)いながら活(かつ)字(じ)をだんだんひろいました。

     Jobanni wa nanben mo me o nuguinagara katsuji o dandan hiroimashita.

     Giovanni gradually picked the type while rubbing his eyes over and over again.

2. printed text
   • 2018, 朝井麻由美, ドラクエやモンハンの世界をどう訳す？ 「教会の十字架の形まで変える」ゲーム翻訳の奥深き世界 in ねとらぼ

     私(わたし)はとにかくゲーム内(ない)のテキストを全(すべ)て読(よ)みたい、活(かつ)字(じ)中(ちゅう)毒(どく)型(がた)ゲーマーなのだ。

     Watashi wa tonikaku gēmu-nai no tekisuto o subete yomitai, katsuji-chūdoku-gata gēmā na no da.

     At any rate, I am a gamer addicted to text; I want to read every single word in the game.

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN