女形

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
おんな
Grade: 1
かた > がた
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
女方

Compound of (onna, woman) +‎ (kata, form).[1][2] The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(おんな)(がた) (onnagataをんながた (wonnagata)?

  1. male actor who plays female roles in kabuki theater: onnagata

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 2
irregular
Alternative spellings
女方
お山
御山

Appears from the early Edo period, around the mid to late 1600s, originally in reference to doll figurines of courtesans made by Oyama Jirōsaburō (小山次郎三郎).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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女形(おやま) (oyamaをやま (woyama)?

  1. male actor who plays female roles in kabuki theater: onnagata
  2. in puppetry, a female puppet
  3. (slang, possibly archaic, chiefly Kansai) a high-end prostitute

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN