Puppet

"Puppet" in Japanese

パペット

papetto

(movable model of a person or animal)

人形

ningyō

(movable model of a person or animal)

人形

ningyō

(person or country controlled by another)

偶人

gūjin

(movable model of a person or animal)

傀儡

kugutsu

(movable model of a person or animal)

傀儡

(person or country controlled by another)

操り人形

ayatsuri ningyō

(movable model of a person or animal)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.