First opened Monday, July 4, 2011
カメラマン
カメラマン
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
cameraman
カメラマン is borrowed from English cameraman.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼は大学卒業後カメラマンになった。
He became a cameraman after he graduated from college.
あそこのカメラマンはどこの人ですか。
What is the nationality of that cameraman over there?
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Borrowed from English cameraman.”
Source: Wiktionary: カメラマン (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.