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 83751 Priority N

Related Vocabulary

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4月馬鹿

しがつばか

April 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

薄ら馬鹿

うすらばか

simpleton

役者

やくしゃ

actor

役者生命

やくしゃせいめい

acting career