キャラ

See also: きゃら

Japanese

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) キャ​ラ [kyáꜜrà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [kʲa̠ɾa̠]

Noun

キャラ • (kyara) 

1. Clipping of キャラクター (kyarakutā, “character; personality”).

   ……をするのは田(た)中(なか)さんのキャラじゃない

   ……o suru no wa Tanaka-san no kyara janai

   doing … is unlike Tanaka (is not Tanaka's personality; is out of character for Tanaka)

   • 2013 [2012], Hideaki Sorachi, “[第](だい)[四](よん)[百](ひゃく)[十](じゅう)[四](よん)[訓](くん)　[愚](おろ)か[者](もの)‼ [Lesson 414: Imbeciles!!]”, in (deprecated template usage) [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) ([銀](ぎん)[魂](たま)) [Silver Soul], volume 47 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha:

     そうか　お前(まえ)達(たち)も気(き)づいていたか　この漫(まん)画(が)マゲのヅラをかぶったらほとんどのキャラがほぼ皆(みな)同(おな)じ顔(かお)になる事(こと)を

     Sō ka Omae-tachi mo kizuiteita 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.