大根役者

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
大 根 役 者
だい
Grade: 1 		こん
Grade: 3 		やく
Grade: 3 		しゃ
Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
大根役者 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 大根 (daikon, “Chinese radish”) +‎ 役者 (yakusha, “actor”).

Derivation unknown. Possibly from the way that daikon as a food may be considered unsophisticated and crude; from the way that daikon are white (白い ​shiroi), alluding to the term 素人 (shirōto, “amateur; hack”); or from a well-known witticism that no matter how much daikon one eats, it never causes food poisoning / is worth notice (hinging upon the verb 当たる (​ataru), meaning either “to hit the mark” / “to be worth notice”, or “to cause food poisoning”).

Pronunciation

Noun

大(だい)根(こん)役(やく)者(しゃ) • (daikon yakusha) 

  1. (slang) a bad actor, a wooden actor, a ham actor

References

  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 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
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