音楽|おんがくongaku[1]atamadaka (head-high)

JLPT N5approx.Common
Definitions
  1. nounmusic
    あの音楽おんがくは彼かれの気きにさわる。↗
    That music gets on his nerves.
Synonyms & antonyms
  • SynonymミュージックCasualKatakana loanword from English 'music'; neutral in register. Largely interchangeable with 音楽, though it clusters in compounds and titles and sounds less natural in plain sentences.

Choose 音楽 as the standard, all-purpose word for music; use ミュージック, the neutral katakana loanword, chiefly in compounds, titles, and contexts that welcome an English-loanword flavor.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 曲きょくなどを演奏えんそうしたり、それを聞きいたりすること。
  2. 学校教育がっこうきょういくにおいて語義ごぎ1を通とおして、音楽おんがく理論りろんや感性かんせいを育成いくせいする教科きょうか。
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