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seiyū

seiyū is the alternative spelling of seiyuu.

Meaning of seiyuu

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.
    • i was just wondering if any seiyuus did/do any other voice acting for things besides anime, like video games and other such media.1998 November 8, jjiz...@forest.drew.edu, “seiyuus in other media?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)

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Forms of seiyū

pluralseiyū
pluralseiyūs

Questions about seiyū

What is seiyū the alternative spelling of?
Seiyū is the alternative spelling of seiyuu.

Words near seiyū in the dictionary

  1. seiyus
  2. seiyuu
  3. seiyuued
  4. seiyuuing
  5. seiyuus
  6. seiyū
  7. seiyūs
  8. seiz'd
  9. seiza
  10. seizable
  11. seize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seiyū (page history and authors); seiyuu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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