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人にん形ぎょう
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Meanings
Noun
1. doll; puppet; marionette
2. puppet (person under the control of another); straw man; yes-man
Kanji used
人person形shape
Pitch accent
にんぎょう
Used in vocabulary
操あやつり人にん形ぎょう
puppet; marionette
Noun
雛ひな人にん形ぎょう
hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
Noun
人にん形ぎょう遣つかい
puppet operator; puppet manipulator; puppeteer
Noun
人にん形ぎょう遣づかい
puppet operator; puppet manipulator; puppeteer
Noun
人にん形ぎょう浄じょう瑠る璃り
Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)
Noun
指ゆび人にん形ぎょう
finger puppet
Noun
木き目め込こみ人にん形ぎょう
wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll
Noun
菊きく人にん形ぎょう
doll clothed in chrysanthemum flowers and branches; doll made from chrysanthemum flowers
Noun
京きょう人にん形ぎょう
Kyoto doll
Noun
五ご月がつ人にん形ぎょう
Boys' May Festival dolls
Noun
人にん形ぎょう回まわし
puppet operator
Noun
人にん形ぎょう師し
doll maker
Noun
Examples96
Mary gave me an American doll.
Is she making a doll?
Who made the doll?
That girl has a lovely doll.
That girl has a lovely doll.
There is a doll in the box.