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大悪人 (daiakunin) Japanese meaning: great villain | Kotomora

大だい悪あく人にん

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Meanings

1

great villain; monster; fiend

Strongly negative term for a person of extreme evil or wickedness, often used in dramatic or emphatic contexts.

彼かれは歴れき史し上じょうの大だい悪あく人にんとし

て

知し

ら

れ

て

いる

。

He is known as a great villain in history.

あの大だい悪あく人にんがついに捕つかまった。

That fiend was finally caught.

Kanji

大large, big
悪bad, vice, rascal
人person

Related words

悪あく人にん
悪人 is a general term for a bad person or villain, while 大悪人 emphasizes extreme wickedness or notoriety.
極ごく悪あく人にん
極悪人 also means a heinous criminal, but 大悪人 can carry a more dramatic or literary tone.

Built from

大だい+悪あく人にん

Etymology

Compound of 大 (dai, 'great') and 悪人 (akunin, 'villain, bad person'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows a common pattern of intensifying a noun with 大.