バーコード

Japanese
バーコード (bā kōdo): a barcode.
バーコード (bā kōdo): a man with a "barcode" or combover hairstyle.

Etymology

Borrowed from English barcode.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) バーコ​ード [bàá kóꜜòdò] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][1]
  • IPA(key): [ba̠ː ko̞ːdo̞]

Noun

バーコード • (bā kōdo) 

  1. A barcode: a set of machine-readable lines of varying width placed on products to represent pricing or other such data.
  2. (idiomatic) A combover hairstyle, from the way that sparse combed-over hair looks like a barcode.

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 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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