ラジオ

Japanese
Alternative spellings
ラヂオ (dated or poetic)
ラヂヲ (poetic)

Etymology

From English radio.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

First cited to a text from 1924.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ラジオ • (rajio) 

  1. [from 1924] radio
    Synonyms: (Kagoshima) ダジオ (dajio), 無線 (musen, literally “wireless”)
    ラジオを聞(き)く
    rajio o kiku
    listen to the radio
  2. [from 1952] (slang, dated) broke, having no money; dining and dashing (punning off of 無線 (musen, “wireless”) with the sense of 無銭 (musen, “money-less”))
    Synonyms: (no money) 無銭 (musen), (dining and dashing) 無銭飲食 (musen inshoku)
  3. radiation (when used as part of a compound)
    Synonym: 放射 (hōsha)
    ラジオアイソトープ
    rajio-aisotōpu
    radioisotope

Descendants
  • → Hokkien: la-jí-o͘h

References
  1. “ラジオ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. “ラジオ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. “ラジオ”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  4. “ラジオ”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
  5. “ラジオ”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
  6. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  7. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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