"女形" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [õ̞nːa̠ɡa̠ta̠] Forms: 女形 [canonical] (ruby: (おんな), (がた)), onnagata [romanization], wonnagata [romanization], をんながた [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: Compound of 女 (onna, “woman”) + 形 (kata, “form”). The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Etymology templates: {{compound|ja|女|形|sort=おんながた|t1=woman|t2=form|tr1=onna|tr2=kata}} 女 (onna, “woman”) + 形 (kata, “form”), {{rendaku2|kata|gata|sort=おんながた}} The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Head templates: {{ja-noun|おんながた|hhira=をんながた}} 女(おんな)形(がた) • (onnagata) ^(←をんながた (wonnagata)?)
  1. male actor who plays female roles in kabuki theater: onnagata Categories (topical): Occupations, Theater
    Sense id: en-女形-ja-noun-nmgoZWzB Disambiguation of Occupations: 40 40 12 9 Disambiguation of Theater: 47 47 3 3 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese terms with rendaku Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 40 40 5 15 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 40 40 2 18 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 40 40 2 18 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 42 42 4 13 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 39 39 2 20
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [o̞ja̠ma̠] Forms: 女形 [canonical] (ruby: 女形(おやま)), oyama [romanization], woyama [romanization], をやま [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: Appears from the early Edo period, around the mid to late 1600s, originally in reference to doll figurines of courtesans made by Oyama Jirōsaburō (小山次郎三郎). Head templates: {{ja-noun|おやま|hhira=をやま}} 女形(おやま) • (oyama) ^(←をやま (woyama)?)
  1. male actor who plays female roles in kabuki theater: onnagata Categories (topical): Occupations, Theater
    Sense id: en-女形-ja-noun-nmgoZWzB1 Disambiguation of Occupations: 40 40 12 9 Disambiguation of Theater: 47 47 3 3 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 40 40 5 15 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 40 40 2 18 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 40 40 2 18 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 42 42 4 13 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 39 39 2 20
  2. in puppetry, a female puppet Categories (topical): Occupations
    Sense id: en-女形-ja-noun-C33OD-SG Disambiguation of Occupations: 40 40 12 9
  3. (slang, possibly archaic, chiefly Kansai) a high-end prostitute Tags: Kansai, archaic, possibly, slang
    Sense id: en-女形-ja-noun-wPe~Yx6d Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Kansai Japanese, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 40 40 5 15 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 40 40 2 18 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 40 40 2 18 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 42 42 4 13 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 39 39 2 20
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

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  "title": "女形",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "女形"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "女形",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "女形"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "女形",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
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    "女形"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "女形",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.