巨きょ人じん

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Meanings

Refers to a physically huge person or a person of outstanding achievement. The 'great man' nuance is often used in historical or literary contexts.

Tokyo Giants (baseball team)

abbreviation

Abbreviation of 読売巨人軍 (Yomiuri Giants). Commonly used in sports news and conversation.

巨きょ人じんが優ゆう勝しょうするthe Giants win the championship
今こん年ねんは巨きょ人じんが優ゆう勝しょうした。
The Giants won the championship this year.
巨きょ人じんを応おう援えんするto root for the Giants
子こ供どもの頃ころからずっと巨きょ人じんを応おう援えんしている。
I've been rooting for the Giants ever since I was a kid.

大おお男おとこ sense 1
大男 describes a physically huge man, while 巨人 can also carry the figurative sense of a person of great achievement.
巨きょ人じん軍ぐん sense 2
巨人軍 is the full formal name of the Yomiuri Giants, while 巨人 is the everyday short form used in casual speech and headlines.
巨きょ匠しょうN1sense 1
巨匠 specifically praises someone as a master of an art or craft, whereas 巨人 more broadly means a giant figure, physical or metaphorical.
モンスター
巨人 literally means a giant or huge figure, while モンスター is used more broadly and metaphorically for a person or thing of extraordinary size, power, or influence.

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ジャイアント
巨人 is the native Japanese word for a giant being, while ジャイアント is the katakana loanword with a more commercial or fantasy flavor.
巨きょ漢かん
巨人 can refer to a mythical or legendary giant, or figuratively to a great person, whereas 巨漢 always describes a real man's exceptionally large physique.

小こ人びと sense 1
小人 means a dwarf or tiny person, the direct physical opposite of 巨人's giant sense.

From Middle Chinese 巨人 (giant). The kanji 巨 means 'huge' and 人 means 'person'.