漫画

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 漫画 – see 漫畫 (“comics; caricature; cartoon; manga; manhua”).
(This term, 漫画, is the simplified form of 漫畫.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
漫 画
まん
Grade: S		 が
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

/mangwa/ > /manga/.

Pronunciation

Noun

漫画 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 漫畫, hiragana まんが, katakana マンガ, rōmaji manga, historical hiragana まんぐわ)

  1. a picture drawn as one pleases without restraint (ex. Hokusai Manga)
  2. a pictorial representation which exaggerates features for comic or satirical effect; a caricature
  3. a story told with pictures and dialog; a comic, manga

Usage notes

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Danish: manga (Japanese comics)
  • → English: manga (Japanese comics)
  • → French: manga (Japanese comics)
  • → Korean: 만화 (manhwa) (comics)
    • → English: manhwa (Korean comics)
  • → Mandarin: 漫畫 (mànhuà) (comics)
    • → English: manhua (Chinese comics)
  • → Portuguese: mangá (Japanese comics)
  • → Russian: ма́нга (mánga) (Japanese comics)

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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