Etymology

gijinka

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Today it means: A non-human character, thing, or idea that has been turned into a human or humanoid in artwork; a humanization. Full definition →

Japanese 擬人化
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from擬人化“personification”
  2. English todaygijinka

Borrowed from Japanese 擬人化 (“personification”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.