漫画

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 漫画 – see 漫畫 (“comics; caricature; cartoon; manga; manhwa; manhua”). (This term is the simplified form of 漫畫).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
漫	画
まん Grade: S	が Grade: 2
goon

Alternative spelling
漫畫 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

/manɡwa/ → /manɡa/

Coined in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived elements, as a compound of 漫 (man, “as one pleases”) +‎ 画 (ga, “picture”). First appears in 1798 in the foreword to Santō Kyōden's picture book 四時交加 (Shīshi Kōga) already using the modern simplified kanji spelling of 漫画.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) まんが [màńgá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [mã̠ŋɡa̠]

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Noun

漫(まん)画(が) or 漫画(マンガ) • (manga) ^{←まんぐわ (mangwa)?}

1. (drawing, painting) a drawing or painting made as one pleases without restraint, such as those by Hokusai Manga
2. (art) a caricature (pictorial representation of someone or something for comic effect)
3. a comic (cartoon story)

Usage notes

• All comics in general are called 漫画 (manga) in Japanese. In other countries, the romanization manga is typically used for comics produced primarily for the Japanese market.

Derived terms

• 漫(まん)画(が)本(ほん) (mangahon), 漫(まん)画(が)本(ぼん) (mangabon)
• 漫(まん)画(が)家(か) (mangaka)
• 漫(まん)画(が)字(じ) (mangaji)
• 4(よん)コマ漫(まん)画(が) (yon-koma manga)

Descendants

• → Cantonese: 漫畫／漫画 (maan⁶ waa^6-2, “comics”)
• → Danish: manga (“Japanese comics”)
• → English: manga (“Japanese comics”)
• → French: manga (“Japanese comics”)
• → Hakka: 漫畫／漫画 (man-fa, “comics”)
• → Hakka: 漫畫／漫画 (mang-ká, “comics”)
• → Indonesian: manga (“Japanese comics”)
• → Korean: 만화 (manhwa, “comics”)
  • → English: manhwa (“Korean comics”)
  • → French: manhwa (“Korean comics”)
  • → Russian: ма́нхва́ (mánxvá, “Korean comics”)
• → Macedonian: манга (manga, “Japanese comics”)
• → Mandarin: 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà, “comics”)
• → Min Nan: 漫畫／漫画 (bān-ōa, bān-ūi, bān-ōe, “comics”)
• → Min Nan: 漫畫／漫画 (bàng-gà, “comics, cartoon”)
• → Portuguese: mangá (“Japanese comics”), manga
• → Russian: ма́нга (mánga, “Japanese comics”)
  • → Bashkir: манга (manga)
  • → Tatar: манга (manga)
• → Ukrainian: ма́нґа (mánga, “Japanese comics”)
• → Wu: 漫畫／漫画 (³me-hho, “comics”)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.