Japanese symbol for “offloading”
丸投げ
まるなげ
Romaji: marunage
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing
In Japanese, offloading is 丸投げ, read まるなげ (marunage).
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Meanings
- n, vs, vt farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing
- n, vs, vt leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
Written forms: 丸投げ、まる投げ. Readings: まるなげ.
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 日の丸 | ひのまる hinomaru | red or gold circle representing the Sun |
| 丸い | まるい marui | round; circular; spherical |
| 丸み | まるみ marumi | roundness; rotundity |
| 弾丸 | だんがん dangan | bullet; shot; shell |
| 丸ごと | まるごと marugoto | in its entirety; whole; wholly |
| 丸々 | まるまる marumaru | plump; rotund; chubby |
| 投票 | とうひょう touhyou | voting; ballot; poll |
| 投資 | とうし toushi | investment |
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.