漫画家

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 漫画家 – see 漫畫家 (“cartoonist; caricaturist; etc.”).
(This term is the simplified form of 漫畫家).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
漫 画 家
まん
Grade: S 		が
Grade: 2 		か
Grade: 2
on’yomi
Alternative spellings
漫畫家 (kyūjitai)
マンガ家
 漫画家 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

漫画 (manga, “comics”) +‎ 家 (-ka, “-ist”)

Pronunciation

Noun

漫(まん)画(が)家(か) or 漫画家(マンガか) • (mangaka) ←まんぐわか (mangwaka)?

  1. a cartoonist; a comics artist
    • 2007 July 23, Mitsuru Adachi, “メモリーオフ 前編 [Memory Off: First Chapter]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) (SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム)), volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 112:
      白(しろ)い……どこもかしこも、まっ白(しろ)だ……これがあの世(よ)なのか。漫(まん)画(が)家(か)にとっては本(ほん)当(とう)の天(てん)国(ごく)だな。静(しず)かだ……何(なに)も聞(き)こえない。
      Shiroi…… Doko mo kashiko mo, masshiro da…… Kore ga ano yo na no ka. Mangaka ni totte wa hontō no tengoku da na. Shizuka da…… Nani mo kikoenai.
      White… All over the place, endless white… So this is the otherworld. A true paradise for comics artists. So quiet… I can't hear a thing.

Usage notes

Descendants

  • → English: mangaka
  • → French: mangaka
  • → Russian: манга́ка (mangáka)

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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