character

/ˈkærɪktər/

意味: 性格、登場人物、文字

例文: Kai claimed his character was “mysteriously cool.”
　　  カイが「自分の性格は謎にクール」と主張。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: main character(主人公), character trait(性格特性), fictional character(架空の人物)

定義: 人や物の特徴や性質を指します。物語や映画の登場人物を指すこともあります。また、文字や記号のことを指す場合もあります。

characterは約8,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
Noun: a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
Noun: the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; – Herbert Spencer
Noun: an actor’s portrayal of someone in a play
Noun: a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
Noun: good repute
Noun: a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person’s qualifications and dependability
Noun: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
Noun: (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
Verb: engrave or inscribe characters on

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

She played a character that resonated with many viewers.(彼女は多くの視聴者に共感を呼ぶキャラクターを演じた。)
Dude, that character is totally hilarious and relatable!(そのキャラクターは本当に面白くて共感できるよ！)
The character’s development throughout the story was truly remarkable.(物語を通じてのキャラクターの成長は本当に素晴らしかった。)
Noun: she is the main character in the novel
Noun: each town has a quality all its own
Noun: the radical character of our demands
Noun: education has for its object the formation of character
Noun: she played the part of Desdemona
Noun: a real character
Noun: a strange character
Noun: a friendly eccentric
Noun: the capable type
Noun: a mental case
Noun: he is a man of character
Noun: requests for character references are all too often answered evasively
Noun: the Greek alphabet has 24 characters

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): case, character, character reference, eccentric, fiber, fibre, fictional character, fictitious character, grapheme, graphic symbol, lineament, part, persona, quality, reference, role, theatrical role, type

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): adult, attribute, imaginary being, portrayal, property, recommendation, repute, scratch, trait, written symbol

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): activeness, attentiveness, ballast, black eye, brachycephalic, cadmus, caregiver, catch, centrist, character, cheerfulness, cleanliness, common denominator, communicativeness, compulsiveness, conceit, conservative, demeanor, depth, discipline, distrust, dolichocephalic, drive, egoism, eidos, elder, emotionality, ethos, ex-spouse, fame, feature, feature of speech, femininity, fictional character, folly, frivolity, giant, hobbit, host, human nature, humility, hypothetical creature, important person, impression, inactiveness, inattentiveness, indiscipline, individuality, inheritance, intractability, irresoluteness, jack of all trades, judgment, liberal, man, mark, masculinity, mermaid, merman, militarist, monster, mythical being, name, nature, oldster, pacifist, patrician, personality, phonogram, pledgee, pledger, pride, professional, property, psychopomp, puff, quality, resoluteness, rurality, seriousness, shape, sobersides, sophisticate, space, state, stay-at-home, stinginess, stock, stoic, sylph, thing, thoroughbred, thoughtfulness, time, tractability, trait, trust, trustworthiness, uncheerfulness, uncleanliness, uncommunicativeness, unemotionality, unicorn, unthoughtfulness, untrustworthiness, wisdom, witch, woman

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): allograph, ascii character, asterisk, bit part, capital, check character, dagger, double dagger, heavy, hero, heroine, ideogram, ingenue, letter, ligature, mathematical symbol, percent sign, phonetic symbol, pictograph, radical, rune, small letter, space, spirit, stenograph, subscript, superscript, texture, title role, type, unit character, villain

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: character, characterise, characteristic, characterize, impersonate, personify, qualify, type, typic, typify

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: