Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jidaigeki

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
jidaige-ki
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Japanese genre of film and television set in pre-Meiji Restoration Japan

Uncountable

noun

A film or programme of this kind.

Countable

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki).

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What does jidaigeki mean?
A Japanese genre of film and television set in pre-Meiji Restoration Japan
Where does jidaigeki come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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