How to say "weight" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 重量じゅうりょうnounThe weight of a thing as a measurable quantity — how heavy an object, load, or vehicle is. Use it whenever weight is stated, measured, compared, or counted.
- nounThe loanword from English. Its distinctive sense is body weight: it is at home in fitness and dieting talk about how much a person weighs.
- 重みおもみnounThe felt or figurative sense of weight: the heaviness you sense in the hand, or the weight of words, silence, or experience. Choose it when weight is felt rather than measured.
- 重りおもりnounNot the quality of being heavy but a weight as a physical object: a piece of metal or the like used to hold something down, balance a scale, or sink a line in fishing.
- 抑えおさえnounEssentially "pressing down" or "holding down"; as "weight" it is really the marginal paperweight sense — a thing that keeps paper in place. Seldom the word you want for weight itself.
Use 重量 for weight as a measurable quantity, 「ウェイト」 for body weight, 「重み」 for felt or figurative weight, 「重り」 for a weight as an object, and 「抑え」 only when weight means something that presses down.
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Japanese equivalents
- 重量じゅうりょうweight
- ウェイトweight
- 重みおもみweight
- 重りおもりweight
- 抑えおさえweight (e.g. paperweight)
- 目方めかたweight
- 重さおもさweight
- 荷重かじゅうload
- 掛け目かけめweight
- 分銅ふんどうweight (for scales)
- 錘いわweight (of a fishing net)
- 量目りょうめweight
- 斤目きんめweight
- 沈子ちんしweight (of a fishing net)
- こくrichness
- 体重たいじゅう(body) weight
- 軽重けいちょうlightness and heaviness
- おしweight
- 重しおもしweight (as used in balances)
- 比重ひじゅうrelative importance
- 錘すいweight (for scales)
- 沈めしずめsinker
- 斤量きんりょう(measured) weight
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