キャラクター

Japanese

Alternative forms

(shortening) キャラ (kyara)

Etymology

Borrowed from English character.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

First attested in 1875.[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) キャラクター [kyáꜜràkùtàà] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5][6]
(Tokyo) キャラクター [kyàráꜜkùtàà] (Nakadaka – [2])[4][5][6]
IPA^(key): [kʲa̠ɾa̠kɯ̟̊ᵝta̠ː]

Noun

キャラクター • (kyarakutā)

character, a fictitious person or creature
Synonym: 登場人物 (tōjō jinbutsu, literally “appearing person”, as in “appearing in this story”)
- 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 [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 kizuite ita 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.
personality
Synonym: 性格 (seikaku)

漫(まん)画(が)みたいにキャラが立(た)ってる
manga mitai ni kyara ga tatteru
having a distinct personality, as if they were a comic book character

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

Derived terms

References

“キャラクター”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
“キャラクター”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
“キャラクター”, in 世界大百科事典第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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
Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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