different between seiyuu vs dubbing

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

• IPA^(key): /?d?b??/

Noun

dubbing (countable and uncountable, plural dubbings)

1. The conferral of knighthood; investment with a title.
2. (film) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation, revoicing.
   • 2013, Carmen Millan-Varela, Francesca Bartrina, The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

     New genres are thus emerging as a consequence of foreign text dubbings (and subtitlings). Some original cartoons and films are also based on dubbings of foreign cartoons and films.

3. (film) The process in which additional or supplementary recordings are "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.
4. (music) The transfer of recorded music from one medium to another.
5. Alternative spelling of dubbin

Related terms

• dub over

See also

• dub
• voice-over
• ADR
• revoicing
• seiyuu
• voice actor

Translations

Further reading

• dubbing (filmmaking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dubbing (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

dubbing

1. present participle of dub

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dubbing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.b?ink/

Noun

dubbing m inan

1. (film) dubbing (replacement of voice)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) dubbingowy
• (nouns) dubbingowanie, zdubbingowanie
• (verbs) dubbingowa?, zdubbingowa?

Further reading

• dubbing in Polish dictionaries at PWN