How to say "full-length" in Japanese

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  • 全身ぜんしんJLPT N2approx.Common
    no-adjectiveCovers 'full-length' in the sense of showing the whole body, as in a portrait. Literally 'the whole body', it is the common word for describing a picture that shows a person's entire figure.
    彼女かのじょは全身ぜんしんずぶぬれだった。↗
    She was soaked from head to foot.
  • nounA katakana loanword for 'full-length'. Being less common, it is seldom the word you want; the whole-body sense seen in portraits is really covered by the common word 全身.

Use 全身, the common word, for 'full-length' pictures such as portraits that show the whole body; 「フルレングス」 is a less common loanword rendering the same English term directly.

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