manhuajia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 漫畫家／漫画家 (mànhuàjiā). Doublet of mangaka and manhwaga.

Noun

manhuajia (plural manhuajias or manhuajia)

1. A manhua (Chinese comic) author or artist.

   Coordinate terms: mangaka, manhwaga, cartoonist

   • 2019, Lee, I. Yun, “The Development of Taiwan Manhua”, in Haruhiko Fujita, Christine Guth, editors, Encyclopedia of East Asian Design, →ISBN:

     Some of the manga introuced during this period came through unauthorized copying by local Taiwanese manhuajia, who adapted original Japanese manga into a Taiwanese-style three horizontal grid.

   • 2020, Paul Bevan, ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage, →ISBN:

     Most of the art work in Wanxiang is by a group of artists who are most often referred to today as manhuajia 漫畫家 (cartoonists), many of whom had been members of a cartoon society that was established in Shanghai in December 1926.

   • 2022, Jieun Kiaer, Ben Cagan, Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation, →ISBN:

     The creators of these East Asian comics also have specific titles: a person who makes manga is a mangaka, a person who creates manhwa is a manhwaga, and a person that makes manhua is a manhuajia.

Related terms

• manhua

Translations

manhua author or artist

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漫畫家／漫画家 (maan⁶ waa^6-2 gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 漫畫家／漫画家 (zh) (mànhuàjiā)