"ヒーロー" meaning in Japanese

See ヒーロー in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [çiːɾo̞ː] Forms: hīrō [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from English hero. Etymology templates: {{bor|ja|en|hero}} English hero Head templates: {{ja-noun}} ヒーロー • (hīrō)
  1. a hero (person of great bravery) Categories (topical): Fictional characters, Male people
    Sense id: en-ヒーロー-ja-noun-xpmWJNru Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 53 47 Disambiguation of Male people: 55 45 Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 96 4 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10
  2. a hero (main protagonist) Categories (topical): Fictional characters, Male people, Narratology, People
    Sense id: en-ヒーロー-ja-noun-FK-giYxt Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 53 47 Disambiguation of Male people: 55 45 Disambiguation of Narratology: 25 75 Disambiguation of People: 29 71 Categories (other): Japanese katakana Disambiguation of Japanese katakana: 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 英雄 (eiyū) (ruby: (えい), (ゆう)), 勇者 (yūsha) (ruby: (ゆう), (しゃ)), 主人公 (shujinkō) (ruby: (しゅ), (じん), (こう)), ヒロイン (hiroin)
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          "english": "Tomoya… I was wrong…… Under this mask… the face that took a beating for friends, was the true face of a hero…",
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          "roman": "Tomoya… papa wa machigatte ita yo…… Kono masuku ni kakurete ita… tomodachi no tame ni kizutsuita kao koso ga hontō no hīrō no kao datta n da ne…",
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          "ref": "2009 August 24 [2006 November 7], Naoyuki Kageyama, “G(ジー)X(エックス)-2(ツー) その名(な)は万(まん)城(じょう)目(め)‼ [GX-2: That Name is Manjōme!!]”, in [遊](ゆう)☆[戯](ぎ)☆[王](おう)[G](ジー)[X](エックス) [King of Games GX], 22nd edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo, →ISBN, page 49:",
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          "ref": "2013 April 7 [2012 December 9], ONE with Murata, Yusuke, “1(いち)撃(げき)目(め) 一(いち)撃(げき) [1st Hit: One Hit]”, in [ONEPUNCH-MAN](【ワンパンマン】) [One-Punch Man], 6th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, pages 17–19:",
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          "ref": "2016, ライフ イズ ストレンジ [Life Is Strange], spoken by Chloe Price (Lynn), Square Enix, via Dontnod Entertainment:",
          "roman": "Makkusu wa atashi no hīrō da",
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Download raw JSONL data for ヒーロー meaning in Japanese (5.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 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.