横顔

Japanese
Kanji in this term
横 顔
よこ
Grade: 3		 かお > がお
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
橫顏 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

First attested in 1682.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) よこがお [yòkógáó] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [jo̞ko̞ɡa̠o̞]

Noun

横(よこ)顔(がお) • (yokogao) ←よこがほ (yokogafo)?

  1. [from 1700] profile (someone's face seen from the side)
    Synonym: 輪郭 (rinkaku)
  2. [from 1934] profile (summary of information about a person)
    Synonym: プロフィール (purofīru)
  3. [from 1682] This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Verb

横(よこ)顔(がお)する • (yokogao suru) suru (stem 横(よこ)顔(がお)し (yokogao shi), past 横(よこ)顔(がお)した (yokogao shita))

  1. [from 1682] This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References
  1. “横顔”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (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
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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