マスク

Japanese

Policemen wearing gauze masks.

Etymology

Borrowed from English mask.[1][2]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) マスク [máꜜsùkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][3]
IPA^(key): [ma̠sɨ̥ᵝkɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

マスク • (masuku)

a mask (cover for the face), especially a gauze mask
- 1997 July 9, Kazuki Takahashi, “アメリカン・ヒーロー〈後(こう)編(へん)〉”, in 遊(ゆう)☆戯(ぎ)☆王(おう), volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 81:
  
  友(とも)也(や)…パパは間(ま)違(ちが)っていたよ……このマスクに隠(かく)れていた…友(とも)達(だち)のために傷(きず)ついた顔(かお)こそが本(ほん)当(とう)のヒーローの顔(かお)だったんだね…
  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…
  Tomoya… I was wrong… Under this mask… the face that took a beating for friends, was the true face of a hero…
looks, features

Synonyms

(looks): 顔(かお)立(だ)ち (kaodachi)

Hyponyms

(facial covering): 布(ぬの)マスク (nuno masuku, “cloth mask”)

See also

仮(か)面(めん) (kamen)
面(めん) (men)

ムスク (musuku)

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
“マスク”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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