漫画家

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: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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

(Tokyo) まんがか [màńgáká] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [mã̠ŋɡa̠ka̠]

Noun

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

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 PROGRAM], 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

This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as マンガ家.

Descendants

→ English: mangaka
→ French: mangaka
→ Korean: 만화가(漫畫家) (manhwaga)
- → English: manhwaga
→ Mandarin: 漫畫家／漫画家 (mànhuàjiā)
- → English: manhuajia
→ Russian: манга́ка (mangáka)

References

^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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