堕天使

See also: 墮天使

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 堕天使 – see 墮天使 (“fallen angel”).
(This term, 堕天使, is the simplified form of 墮天使.)
Notes:

Japanese
堕天使 (datenshi): an illustration of a fallen angel from Paradise Lost.
Kanji in this term
堕 天 使
だ
Grade: S		 てん
Grade: 1		 し
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 堕 (da, “lapse; degenerate; fall”) +‎ 天使 (tenshi, “angel”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

堕天使 (hiragana だてんし, rōmaji datenshi)

  1. (Christianity) a fallen angel
    • 2000 March 1, “魔ま天てん老ろう [Demonic Skyelder]”, in Booster 7, Konami:
      天 (てん)界 (かい)から追 (つい)放 (ほう)された堕 (だ)天 (てん)使 (し)。闇 (やみ)での闘 (たたか)いに優 (すぐ)れている。
      Tenkai kara tsuihō sareta datenshi. Yami de no tatakai ni sugurete iru.
      A fallen angel exiled from heaven. He excels at attacking from the dark.
  2. (Christianity; by extension) the Devil, Satan, Lucifer

See also

References
  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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