Japanese

Noun

売名 ‎(hiragana ばいめい, romaji baimei)

1. advertising oneself, self-promotion

   それは売名 (ばいめい)行為 (こうい)だ。

   Sore wa baimei kōi da.

   It's just a performance.

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.