マスク

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Japanese

Policemen wearing gauze masks.
 マスク on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from English mask.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

マスク • (masuku) 

  1. a mask (cover for the face), especially a gauze mask
    • 1997 July 9, Kazuki Takahashi, “アメリカン・ヒーロー〈後(こう)編(へん)〉”, in 遊(ゆう)☆戯(ぎ)☆王(おう), volume 3 (fiction), 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 machigatte ita yo…… Kono masuku ni kakurete ita… tomodachi no tame ni kizutsuita kao koso ga hontō no hīrō no kao datta n 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

Synonyms

Hyponyms

  • (facial covering): 布(ぬの)マスク (nuno masuku, “cloth mask”)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ “マスク”, in デジタル大辞泉‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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