Translation guide
How to express the action of calling someone over a public address system, or the concept of pagination in digital contexts.
The act of summoning a person by announcing their name or a message over a loudspeaker, such as in an airport, hospital, or store.
The most common and general term for paging someone. It can be used as a noun or combined with verbs like する or かける.
The division of content into separate pages, such as in a book, document, or website.
While ページング (paging) is understood, 呼び出し is the natural Japanese term for paging someone over a speaker. Use ページング mainly for technical pagination.
Please page them.
There was a paging announcement at the airport.
They are paging patients at the hospital.
Specifically describes paging someone over the facility's public address system. More descriptive than just 呼び出し.
We are paging a lost child over the public address system.
Paging by making an announcement. Often used in stores or stations.
We paged the customer over the announcement system.
Refers to a pager/beeper device, now largely obsolete. Can be used to talk about paging in the context of old technology.
Back in the day, we used to page people with beepers.
The direct loanword for pagination, commonly used in web development and digital interfaces.
The pagination on this site is hard to use.
Literally 'page division', a more Japanese-sounding alternative to ページネーション. Used in general contexts.
Print the report with pagination.
Refers to a page break or the act of starting a new page. Often used in word processing.
Please insert a page break here.