Word Meaning 役者馬鹿

やくしゃばか yakushabaka

役者馬鹿 is read as やくしゃばか (yakushabaka) and means good actor who is inept in all other matters.

Meaning

English

  1. good actor who is inept in all other matters
  2. demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns
  3. skilled actor who knows little of life
  4. person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense

Reading

Kana

やくしゃばか

Romaji

yakushabaka

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 36 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 4 Rank 84504 Priority N

Related Vocabulary

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大馬鹿者

おおばかもの

great fool

馬鹿者

ばかもの

moron

馬鹿

ばか

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四月馬鹿

しがつばか

April fool

大馬鹿

おおばか

extreme foolishness

小馬鹿

こばか

fool

機械馬鹿

きかいばか

skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters

ワープロ馬鹿

わーぷろばか

someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer

桜切る馬鹿、梅切らぬ馬鹿

さくらきるばかうめきらぬばか

only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees

薄馬鹿

うすばか

dimwit

薄ら馬鹿

うすらばか

simpleton