医者 いしゃ isha doctor
Town Doctor Jumbo
The arrow suggests ‘accurately hitting the inside’. 者 しゃ sha means ‘educated person’
お医者 おいしゃ oisha means doctor
PS: Although most people talk about the doctor as
おいしゃさん oishasan, you should not forget that when you visit a doctor you refer to him/her as
せんせい sensei.
In the modern Japanese world more and more English words are coming into the language. There are various reasons for this: fashion, newly invented jobs in industry, young-people-being-up-to-date, advertising, but also often because the job is set in another country.
The Japanese media would have used the same English word, but because Japanese is a phonetic language and all words need to fit into the katakana script, we sometimes don’t recognise the original word anymore. Just sound out the word.
Mind you, often there is a correct originally-Japanese word for the job, but it just doesn’t have the same “feeling” for young people.
Japanese Language and Culture
Town Doctor Jumbo
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