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Japanese symbol for “documentary”

Romaji: dokyumentarii
documentary

In Japanese, documentary is (dokyumentarii).

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Meanings

  1. n documentary

Written forms: . Readings: .

Other Japanese words for “documentary”

WordReadingMeaning
ドキュメント dokyumentodocumentary; reportage
ドキュメンタル dokyumentarudocumentary; documental
ルポルタージュ ruporutaajudocumentary literature; documentary

See also: Chinese symbol for “documentary”.

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.