男らしい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
男
おとこ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

男(おとこ) (otoko, “man”) + らしい (-rashii, to be like or equivalent to; to be perceived as)。

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おとこらし​い [òtókóráshíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [5])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [o̞to̞ko̞ɾa̠ɕiː]

Adjective

男(おとこ)らしい • (otokorashii) ←をとこらしい (wotokorasii)?-i (adverbial 男(おとこ)らしく (otokorashiku))

  1. manly

Inflection

Antonyms

References

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