彼女

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
か(の)
Grade: S
じょ
Grade: 1
yutōyomi
 彼女 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

First appears in writing in the late Edo period as a compound of 彼の (kano, ano, that) +‎ (onna, woman) with the reading kano onna or ano onna, simply meaning “that woman”.[1] The kanojo reading arose by replacing the kun'yomi reading of onna for the second character with its on'yomi of jo. The first written appearance of the kanojo reading is in 1876, in the 改正画引小学読本 (Kaisei Gakubiki Shōgaku Dokuhon, “Revised Stroke-ordered Elementary-school Reader”).[2] The first clear use of this term as a pronoun is around 1888,[2] arising out of influence from Western works.[1][2][3] The kanojo reading became more common and replaced kano onna and ano onna during the Taishō period (1912-1926).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

(かの)(じょ) (kanojoかのぢよ (kanodyo)?

  1. (formal) Female third-person singular pronoun; she, her
    (かれ)()(かの)(じょ)()(じょう)
    Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō
    His and Her Circumstances
  2. (colloquial, vulgar) Used as a second-person singular pronoun to an unknown young woman by a man, especially in the vocative mood in a vulgar way.
    ヘイ(かの)(じょ)(ちゃ)しない?
    Hei kanojo, ocha shinai?
    Hey girl, do you want a cup of tea?

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Noun[edit]

(かの)(じょ) or 彼女(カノジョ) (kanojoかのぢよ (kanodyo) or カノヂヨ (kanodyo)?

  1. (colloquial) a girlfriend (a female partner in a romantic relationship)
    あぁ、(かの)(じょ)ほしいなぁ…
    Ā, kanojo ga hoshii nā…
    Man, I wish I had a girlfriend
    • 2004 September 8, Hideaki Sorachi, “(だい)(じゅう)(ろく)(くん) (かんが)えたら(じん)(せい)ってオッさんになってからの(ほう)(なが)いじゃねーか! (こわ)っ‼”, in (ぎん)(たま), volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      いいだろ(まえ) ()(へい)(せん)()こう(がわ)()てみたいんだ
      Ii daro omae chiheisen no mukōgawa e itte mitai n da
      Fine, take me to the other side of the horizon then.
      てめーは(かの)(じょ)かぁぁ‼
      Temē wa kanojo kaaa‼
      You ain’t my damn girlfriend awright!?
    • 2008 July 23, TAGRO, “#05”, in 変ゼミ [Abnormal Physiology Seminar], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 83:
      これって……コムギさん⁉()(ぶん)(かの)(じょ)がやられてるのにその(こう)(こつ)(ひょう)(じょう)は……ナニ⁉
      コムギは()()られ(NTR)フェチなのさ
      Kore tte…… Komugi-san⁉ Jibun no kanojo ga yararete ru no ni sono kōkotsu no hyōjō wa…… nani⁉
      Komugi wa netorare fechi na no sa
      That is… Komugi-san!? His girlfriend’s cheating on him, and yet he has that satisfied look on his face… What the heck⁉
      Komugi has a cuckold’s fetish
    • 2013 August 7, ONE with Murata, Yusuke, “21(にじゅういち)(げき)() (きょ)(だい)(いん)(せき)”, in ONEPUNCH-MAN(【ワンパンマン】), volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 25:
      ()(まえ)(かの)(じょ)()しかったなあ…………
      Shinu mae ni kanojo hoshikatta nā…………
      I wish I had a girlfriend before I die…

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Descendants[edit]

  • Korean: 그녀(女) (geunyeo) (calque)

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  5. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011) 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN