doujinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• dojin
• dōjin

語源

Borrowed from Japanese 同人 (dōjin, “colleague, people with similar interests”, literally “same people”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈdoʊd͡ʒɪn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdəʊd͡ʒɪn/
• (New York Latino) IPA: [ˈd̪o(ʊ)d͡ʒɪn]
• (Caribbean) IPA: [ˈdoːd͡ʒɪn]
• ハイフネーション: dou‧jin

名詞

doujin (plural doujins or doujin)

1. A product produced and sold independently of corporations (in Japan); an indie work.
   • 2012, Hiroaki Tamagawa, Comic Market as Space for Self-Expression in Otaku Culture:

     Thus, roughly a third of all circles in Comic Market participate for the purpose of creating doujin without the goal of transitioning to commercial publications.

   • 2014, Sanuki Sobataro, Dear people who upload my doujin,‎:

     There are creators who really make money and earn living from doujin, but those who can do so, are minority.

2. (by restriction) Clipping of doujinshi (“a Japanese amateur comic book; a self-published manga”).

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