Mincho

Min·cho
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UK/ˈmɪn.tʃəʊ/US/ˈmɪn.tʃoʊ/

proper noun

A style of typeface used to display kanji and kana in Japanese, roughly analogous in appearance to serif typefaces.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Minchō

  1. mediaA style of typeface used to display kanji and kana in Japanese, roughly analogous in appearance to serif typefaces.

    The two typefaces Mincho and Gothic are most widely used. Mincho is serif and is used for main body text. Gothic is sans serif and is used mainly for headings.

    1997 May 2, Horst Bunke, Patrick S. P. Wang, Handbook Of Character Recognition And Document Image Analysis, World Scientific Publishing, →ISBN, page 298
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    There are two popular styles of Kanji character fonts: “Mincho” and “Gothic.”[…]"Mincho" has thin horizontal strokes and thick vertical ones.[…]The role of “Mincho” in Japanese is similar to Roman style, and that of “Gothic” is similar to Bold face style.

    1991 November 29, Robert A. Morris, Jacques André, Raster Imaging and Digital Typography II: Proceedings of the Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, Boston 1991, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 149
adjectiveMincho (not comparable)

alternative Minchō

  1. not comparablemediaOf a Japanese font or typeface, being in the Mincho style.

Origin

Borrowed from Japanese 明(みん)朝(ちょう) (Minchō, literally “Ming Dynasty”). Doublet of Myeongjo, borrowed from Korean.

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APA

Mincho. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mincho

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“Mincho.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mincho. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mincho,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mincho.

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