音楽|おんがくongaku[1]atamadaka (head-high)
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- nounmusicあの音楽は彼の気にさわる。↗That music gets on his nerves.
- 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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