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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A voice actor in a native-language version anime, a video game, a radio broadcast or an advertisement in Japan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To take on a role as a voice actor in a Japanese production, or perform a certain character in such a production.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from Japanese 声優 (seiyū), from Middle Chinese 聲 (*ɕiɛ̝ŋ, “sound, voice”) + 優 (*ʔɨu, “actor”).
