different between seiyuu vs dubber

English

Alternative forms

• seiyu, seiy?

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (seiy?), from Middle Chinese ? (*?i???, “sound, voice”) + ? (*??u, “actor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?ju?/

Noun

seiyuu (plural seiyuu or seiyuus)

1. A voice actor in a native-language version anime, a video game, a radio broadcast or an advertisement in Japan.
   • December 2013, Pax Alquiza in Anime Reign Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 2:

     And the seiyuus all fit very nicely with their characters, especially Takuya, who voices our main man, Hikigaya.

   • 2014, p. 189:

     Kasahara might be better-known today to most U.S. fans as an anime seiyuu (voice actor); she played Fuu in Magic Knights Rayearth and Misuki's mother, Hazuki, in Full Moon wo Sagashite.

Translations

Verb

seiyuu (third-person singular simple present seiyuus, present participle seiyuuing, simple past and past participle seiyuued)

1. To take on a role as a voice actor in a Japanese production, or perform a certain character in such a production.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?b?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?b?/
• Rhymes: -?b?(r)

Etymology 1

dub +? -er

Noun

dubber (plural dubbers)

1. One who dubs, or gives a name.
   • 2002, Peter R. Coss, Maurice Hugh Keen, Heraldry, Pageantry, and Social Display in Medieval England (page 199)

     […] thus to knight someone lacking in virtue dishonoured the dubber.

2. A person who records or adds a dubbed soundtrack to a film.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dubber (plural dubbers)

1. A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.

Anagrams

• rubbed