人形

人形

1. human shape or appearance
2. doll; puppet

 

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From Middle Chinese compound 人形 (nyin heng, literally “person shape”).

• (Tokyo) にんぎょー [nìńgyóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ĩŋʲɡʲo̞ː]

人(にん)形(ぎょう) • (ningyō) ^{←にんぎやう (ningyau)?}

1. doll; puppet
   • 2015 August 16, mothy [mothy] (lyrics and music), “バリーゾールの子供は一人っ子 [Barisol's Child is an Only Child]”:

     室(しつ)内(ない)に転(ころ)がった人(にん)形(ぎょう)   手(て)足(あし)はバラバラで温(あたた)かい

     Shitsunai ni korogatta ningyō   teashi wa barabara de atatakai

     The dolls scattered inside the room, their limbs were warm and in pieces

2. a picture of someone's appearance
3. (figurative) a puppet, one who carries out actions for someone else
4. (less common) a tailor's dummy, a mannequin

For the general sense of doll, the ningyō reading appears to be more common.

• 形代(かたしろ) (katashiro): a paper doll

• 人(にん)形(ぎょう)家(か) (ningyōka): a dollmaker
• 雛(ひな)人(にん)形(ぎょう) (hinaningyō): a doll displayed at Hinamatsuri
• 五(ご)月(がつ)人(にん)形(ぎょう) (gogatsuningyō): a doll displayed at the Japanese Children's Day
• 日(に)本(ほん)人(にん)形(ぎょう) (nihonningyō): a traditional Japanese doll
• からくり人(にん)形(ぎょう) (karakuriningyō): a traditional Japanese mechanized puppet
• 藁(わら)人(にん)形(ぎょう) (waraningyō): a straw doll
• 操(あやつ)り人(にん)形(ぎょう) (ayatsuriningyō): a marionette
• くるみ割(わ)り人(にん)形(ぎょう) (kurumiwariningyō): a nutcracker doll

Compound of 人 (hito, “person”) +‎ 形 (kata, “shape, form”). The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• 人像 (less common)

• (Tokyo) ひとがた [hìtógátá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [çito̞ɡa̠ta̠]

人(ひと)形(がた) • (hitogata) 

1. a human shape
2. a doll
3. a tailor's dummy, a mannequin
4. a proxy, a representative
5. a person's appearance
6. a description or sketch of a person, as in a wanted poster created by the police

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

人形 • (inhyeong) (hangeul 인형)

1. hanja form^? of 인형 (“doll, puppet”)