アンドロイド

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English android or Android.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) アンドロ​イド [àńdóróꜜìdò] (Nakadaka – [4])[3]
  • IPA(key): [ã̠ndo̞ɾo̞ido̞]

Noun

アンドロイド • (andoroido) 

  1. (robotics) android (a robot that looks and acts like a human being)
    Synonyms: 人造人間 (jinzō ningen, literally “artificial person”), ヒューマノイド (hyūmanoido), 人間型 (ningen-gata), ロボット (robotto)

Proper noun

アンドロイド • (Andoroido) 

  1. (computing, mobile telephony) Android (an operating system for mobile devices)

References
  1. “アンドロイド”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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