人形

人形

1. human shape or appearance
2. doll; puppet

From Middle Chinese compound 人形 (nyin heng, literally “person shape”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) にんぎょー [nìńgyóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ĩŋʲɡʲo̞ː]

人形 (hiragana にんぎょう, rōmaji ningyō, historical hiragana にんぎやう)

1. doll, puppet
2. a picture of someone's appearance
3. a figurative puppet, such as someone who carries out actions for someone else
4. (less common) a tailor's dummy, a mannequin

For the general sense of doll, the ningyō reading appears to be more common.

• 人 (にん)形 (ぎょう)家 (か) (ningyōka): a dollmaker

Compound of 人 (hito, “person”) +‎ 形 (kata, “shape, form”). The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• 人像 (less common)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ひとがた [hìtógátá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [çito̞ɡa̠ta̠]

人形 (hiragana ひとがた, rōmaji hitogata)

1. a human shape
2. a doll
3. a tailor's dummy, a mannequin
4. a proxy, a representative
5. a person's appearance
6. a description or sketch of a person, as in a wanted poster created by the police

• 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

人形 • (inhyeong) (hangeul 인형)

1. Hanja form^? of 인형 (“doll, puppet”).