seiyu

English

Noun

seiyu (plural seiyu or seiyus)

Alternative spelling of seiyuu.

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 声優(せいゆう) (seiyū), from Middle Chinese 聲 (*ɕiɛ̝ŋ, “sound, voice”) + 優 (*ʔɨu, “actor”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈseiju]
Hyphenation: séi‧yu

Noun

seiyu (plural seiyu-seiyu)

voice actor, an actor who provides voices or voice-overs for radio drama, animations, commercials, dubbed films, games in Japanese context
Hypernyms: pengisi suara, aktor suara

Further reading

“seiyu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 声優 (seiyū).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈseiʝu/ [ˈsei̯.ʝu] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
IPA^(key): /ˈseiʃu/ [ˈsei̯.ʃu] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /ˈseiʒu/ [ˈsei̯.ʒu] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -eiʝu
Syllabification: sei‧yu

Noun

seiyu m or f by sense (plural seiyus or seiyu)

voice actor (in Japanese)