バーコード

Japanese
バーコード (bā kōdo): a barcode.
バーコード (bā kōdo): a man with a "barcode" or combover hairstyle.

Etymology

Borrowed from English barcode.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) バーコ​ード [bàá kóꜜòdò] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][1]
  • IPA(key): [ba̠ː ko̞ːdo̞]

Noun

バーコード • (bā kōdo) 

  1. A barcode: a set of machine-readable lines of varying width placed on products to represent pricing or other such data.
  2. (idiomatic) A combover hairstyle, from the way that sparse combed-over hair looks like a barcode.

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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