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堕天使
堕天使
See also: 墮天使
Chinese
| For pronunciation and definitions of 堕天使 – see 墮天使. (This term, 堕天使, is the simplified form of 墮天使.) |
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Japanese
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 堕 | 天 | 使 |
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だ Grade: S |
てん Grade: 1 |
し Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi | ||
Etymology
Coined in Japan from Sinitic elements, as a compound of 堕 (da, “lapse; degenerate; fall”) + 天使 (tenshi, “angel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
堕天使 (hiragana だてんし, romaji datenshi)
- (Christianity) a fallen angel; more specifically, the devil, Lucifer, Satan