Illustration: On a Japanese adventure-film set built as a damaged pedestrian bridge, a young woman takes the leading role in the climactic rescue. She braces one foot against the railing and reaches across a gap toward a stranded child, while two supporting performers wait behind her for direction.

ヒロイン

hiroin

heroine, female protagonist

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは私わたしよりも上手じょうずにヒロインを演えんじた。
She played the heroine better than I.
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古ふるい映画えいがでは、ヒロインは大抵死たいていしぬ。
In many old movies the heroine is always the one to die.
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その小説しょうせつはヒロインの死しで終おわっている。
The novel ends with the heroine’s death.
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