How to say "carrier" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- nounThe loanword, for 'carrier' as a company or service provider — above all a mobile phone or telecommunications carrier. It is also the loanword for 'career', so context tells you which is meant.
- 担ぎかつぎnounA person who carries something on the shoulders, from the verb meaning to shoulder a load — bearers of a festival portable shrine. It is not the word for a courier or a shipping company.
- 担い手にないてnounA bearer: literally someone who carries a load, but often figurative — the person who shoulders a task or carries an undertaking forward, such as the bearers of a tradition or a project.
「キャリア」 is the loanword for a carrier company, especially a mobile phone service provider; 「担ぎ」 is a person carrying a load on the shoulders; 「担い手」 is a bearer of a load or, figuratively, of a role or undertaking.
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Japanese equivalents
- キャリアcarrier
- 担ぎかつぎcarrier
- 担い手にないてbearer
- 保菌者ほきんしゃcarrier (of a disease-causing agent)
- 運送人うんそうにんcarrier
- 運搬人うんぱんにんcarrier
- 運輸業者うんゆぎょうしゃcarrier
- 通信事業者つうしんじぎょうしゃcarrier
- 運び手はこびてcarrier
- 運び屋はこびやcourier
- 搬送波はんそうはcarrier wave
- 運送業者うんそうぎょうしゃforwarding agent
- 感染者かんせんしゃinfected person
- 運搬船うんぱんせんfreighter
- 人足にんそくcoolie
- 基材きざいsubstrate
- 保有者ほゆうしゃowner
- 担体たんたい(charge) carrier
- 新聞配達しんぶんはいたつ(newspaper) carrier
- 保因者ほいんしゃ(hereditary) carrier
- 媒介物ばいかいぶつcarrier
- 媒介者ばいかいしゃ(disease) vector
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