Japanese symbol for “captioning”
字幕
じまく
Romaji: jimaku
subtitles; captioning
In Japanese, captioning is 字幕, read じまく (jimaku).
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Meanings
- n subtitles; captioning
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “captioning”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 字幕スーパー | じまくスーパー jimakusuupaa | subtitles; captioning |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文字 | もじ moji | letter (of an alphabet); character |
| 数字 | すうじ suuji | numeral; digit; numeric character |
| 漢字 | かんじ kanji | kanji; Chinese character |
| 赤字 | あかじ akaji | (being in) the red; deficit |
| 文字通り | もじどおり mojidoori | literally; to the letter |
| 黒字 | くろじ kuroji | (being in) the black; surplus |
| 開幕 | かいまく kaimaku | raising the curtain |
| 幕末 | ばくまつ bakumatsu | Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.