マスク

Japanese

Policemen wearing gauze masks.

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〈(こう)(へん) [American Hero ‹Last Chapter›]”, in (ゆう)()(おう) [King of Games], volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 81:
      (とも)()…パパは()(ちが)っていたよ……このマスク(かく)れていた…(とも)(だち)のために(きず)ついた(かお)こそが(ほん)(とう)のヒーローの(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): (ぬの)マスク (nuno masuku, cloth mask)

See also

  • ムスク (musuku)

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. マスク”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (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 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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