女神

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Chinese

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female; woman; daughter
God; unusual; mysterious
God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being
 
trad. (女神)
simp. #(女神)
anagram 神女

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Noun

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女神

  1. (religion) female goddess
    民主女神  ―  mínzhǔ nǚshén  ―  Goddess of Democracy
  2. (neologism) (of a young female, e.g. a 白富美 (báifùměi)) the goddess of one's heart

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Japanese

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
かみ > がみ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
女神 (kyūjitai)
 女神 on Japanese Wikipedia

Compound of (me, female) +‎ (kami, god).[1][2] The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

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Noun

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()(がみ) (megami

  1. a goddess (female deity)
    • 1999 December 16, “(ぎゃく)(てん)()(がみ) [Goddess of Reversal]”, in EX [EX], Konami:
      (せい)なる(ちから)(よわ)(もの)(まも)り、(ぎゃく)(てん)(ちから)(あた)える()(がみ)
      Seinaru chikara de yowakimono o mamori, gyakuten no chikara o ataeru megami.
      A goddess who grants reversal power and protects the weak with her holy power.
    • 2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “(さい)(しゅう)() それぞれの(みち) [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], Jump Remix edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 352:
      西(せい)(ほう)()(がみ)エキドナ
      Seihō no Megami Ekidona
      Echidna, Goddess of the West
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
め(の)
Grade: 1
かみ
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
女神 (kyūjitai)

From (me, woman) +‎ (no, attributive particle) +‎ (kami, god), literally female god. Akin to the derivation of megami above.

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Noun

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(めの)(かみ) (me no kami

  1. a goddess (female deity)

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
おみな
Grade: 1
かみ > がみ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
女神 (kyūjitai)

Compound of (omina, woman) +‎ (kami, god).[1][2] The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

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  • IPA(key): [o̞mʲina̠ɡa̠mʲi]

Noun

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(おみな)(がみ) (ominagamiをみながみ (wominagami)?

  1. (historical, archaic, possibly obsolete) a kind of paper doll to which one prays for good weather
    Synonym: 照る照る坊主 (teruteru bōzu)

Etymology 4

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Kanji in this term
おんな
Grade: 1
かみ > がみ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
女神 (kyūjitai)

By surface analysis, (onna, woman) +‎ (kami, god), whereby The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁); may separately be a shift from ominagami above, as the omina component, meaning “woman”, separately shifted to onna in general (see etymology of (おんな) (onna). However, the development of the “goddess” meaning is more difficult to explain through this analysis, so a plain compound may be the more likely.

Akin to the formations of megami and me no kami above.

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(おんな)(がみ) (onnagamiをんながみ (wonnagami)?

  1. a goddess (female deity)

Etymology 5

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Kanji in this term
じょ
Grade: 1
しん
Grade: 3
kan'on
Alternative spelling
女神 (kyūjitai)

/djosin//d͡ʑoɕin/

From Middle Chinese 女神 (MC nrjoX zyin).

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(じょ)(しん) (joshinぢよしん (dyosin)?

  1. a goddess
    Synonym: 女神 (megami)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 女神”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Noun

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女神 (yeosin) (hangeul 여신)

  1. hanja form? of 여신 (goddess)

Vietnamese

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Noun

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女神

  1. chữ Hán form of nữ thần (goddess).