マスク

Japanese

Policemen wearing gauze masks.

Etymology

Borrowed from English mask.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) マ​スク [máꜜsùkù] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA(key): [ma̠sɨ̥ᵝkɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

マスク (rōmaji masuku)

  1. a mask (cover for the face), especially a gauze mask
    • 1997 July 9, “アメリカン・ヒーロー〈後こう編へん〉 [American Hero <Last Chapter>]”, in 遊ゆう☆戯ぎ☆王おう [King of Games], volume 3 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 81:
      友 (とも)也 (や)…パパは間 (ま)違 (ちが)っていたよ……このマスクに隠 (かく)れていた…友 (とも)達 (だち)のために傷 (きず)ついた顔 (かお)こそが本 (ほん)当 (とう)のヒーローの顔 (かお)だったんだね…
      Tomoya… papa wa machigatteita yo…… Kono masuku ni kakureteita… tomodachi no tame ni kizutsuita kao koso ga hontō no hīrō no kao dattan da ne…
      Tomoya… I was wrong…… Under this mask… the face that took a beating for friends, was the true face of a hero…
  2. looks, features

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