The story
- Middle Chinese · derived from聲“sound, voice”
- Japanese · borrowed from声優
- English todayseiyuu
Borrowed from Japanese 声優 (seiyū), from Middle Chinese 聲 (*ɕiɛ̝ŋ, “sound, voice”) + 優 (*ʔɨu, “actor”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
seiyuu
Today it means: A voice actor in a native-language version anime, a video game, a radio broadcast or an advertisement in Japan. Full definition →
Japanese 声優 ← Middle Chinese 聲