"素人" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Chinese]

IPA: /su⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /sou̯³³ jɐn²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /su⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/, /sou̯³³ jɐn²¹/ Chinese transliterations: sùrén [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄙㄨˋ ㄖㄣˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo], sou³ jan⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], sùrén [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], sùrén [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], su⁴-jên² [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], sù-rén [Mandarin, Yale], suhren [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], сужэнь [Mandarin, Palladius], sužɛnʹ [Mandarin, Palladius], sou yàhn [Cantonese, Yale], sou³ jan⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], sou³ yen⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 素人
  1. commoner; layman; amateur Categories (topical): People Derived forms: 素人畫家, 素人画家
    Sense id: en-素人-zh-noun-GcYv0PPX Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 88 7 4 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 6 3 2

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [ɕiɾo̞ːto̞], [ɕiɾo̞to̞], [ɕiɾa̠bʲito̞] Forms: 素人 [canonical] (ruby: (しろ), (うと)), 素人 [canonical] (ruby: (しろ), ()), 素人 [canonical] (ruby: (しら), (びと)), shirōto [romanization], shiroto [romanization], shirabito [romanization]
Etymology: Compound of 素(しろ) (shiro, “plain, undecorated”) + 人(うと) (uto, “person”). The term 人 (hito, “person”) appears in various older compounds with a root form of 人 (*puto → *buto → *udo, *puto → *futo → *uto). This form is never seen in isolation, and it often undergoes further phonetic changes to combine with preceding vowels. Compare the formation of 仲人 (nakōdo), from naka + udo; 旅人 (tabiudo), from tabi + udo. Etymology templates: {{ja-compound|素|しろ|人|うと|sort=くろ.うと|t1=plain, undecorated|t2=person}} 素(しろ) (shiro, “plain, undecorated”) + 人(うと) (uto, “person”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|しろうと|しろと|しらびと}} 素(しろ)人(うと) or 素(しろ)人(と) or 素(しら)人(びと) • (shirōto or shiroto or shirabito)
  1. amateur, novice Categories (topical): People Synonyms: 初心者
    Sense id: en-素人-ja-noun-7DXWgZoF Disambiguation of People: 67 33 0 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 77 16 7 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 84 11 5 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 84 11 6 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 50 31 19 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 66 22 12 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 85 10 5
  2. respectable woman (one who is not a prostitute, geisha, or hostess)
    Sense id: en-素人-ja-noun-0p5HF4UL
  3. (archaic, dialectal, Kyoto) unlicensed prostitute Tags: Kyoto, archaic, dialectal
    Sense id: en-素人-ja-noun-n3CUqssz
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  "title": "素人",
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). 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.