人形
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Chinese[edit]
man; person; people | to appear; to look; form to appear; to look; form; shape | ||
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simp. and trad. (人形) |
人 | 形 |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
人形
- human shape or appearance
- doll; puppet
Derived terms[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Kanji in this term | |
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人 | 形 |
にん Grade: 1 |
ぎょう Grade: 2 |
goon |
From Middle Chinese compound 人形 (nyin heng, literally “person shape”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
人形 • (ningyō) ←にんぎやう (ningyau)?
- doll; puppet
- 2015 August 16, mothy [mothy] (lyrics and music), “バリーゾールの子供は一人っ子 [Barisol's Child is an Only Child]”:
- 室内に転がった人形 手足はバラバラで温かい
- Shitsunai ni korogatta ningyō teashi wa barabara de atatakai
- The dolls scattered inside the room, their limbs were warm and in pieces
- 室内に転がった人形 手足はバラバラで温かい
- a picture of someone's appearance
- (figurative) a puppet, one who carries out actions for someone else
- (less common) a tailor's dummy, a mannequin
Usage notes[edit]
For the general sense of doll, the ningyō reading appears to be more common.
Coordinate terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 人形家 (ningyōka): a dollmaker
- 雛人形 (hinaningyō): a doll displayed at Hinamatsuri
- 五月人形 (gogatsuningyō): a doll displayed at the Japanese Children's Day
- 日本人形 (nihonningyō): a traditional Japanese doll
- からくり人形 (karakuriningyō): a traditional Japanese mechanized puppet
- 藁人形 (waraningyō): a straw doll
- 操り人形 (ayatsuriningyō): a marionette
- くるみ割り人形 (kurumiwariningyō): a nutcracker doll
Etymology 2[edit]
Kanji in this term | |
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人 | 形 |
ひと Grade: 1 |
かた > がた Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
Compound of 人 (hito, “person”) + 形 (kata, “shape, form”). The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Alternative forms[edit]
- 人像 (less common)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- a human shape
- a doll
- a tailor's dummy, a mannequin
- a proxy, a representative
- a person's appearance
- a description or sketch of a person, as in a wanted poster created by the police
References[edit]
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
Korean[edit]
Hanja in this term | |
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人 | 形 |
Noun[edit]
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