音楽

See also: 音樂 and 音乐

Japanese

Kanji in this term
音	楽
おん Grade: 1	がく Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
音樂 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 音樂 (MC 'im ngaewH|ngaewk|lak).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おんがく [óꜜǹgàkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]
(Tokyo) おんがく [òńgákú] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
(Osaka) おんがく [òńꜜgàkù] (Nakadaka – [2])
IPA^(key): [õ̞ŋɡa̠kɯ̟]

Noun

音(おん)楽(がく) • (ongaku) (uncountable)

music
- 1927, 堀辰雄, ルウベンスの偽画:
  そういう気(き)持(もち)は悪(わる)い音(おん)楽(がく)を聞(き)いたあとの感(かん)動(どう)に非(ひ)常(じょう)に似(に)ていた。
  Sō iu kimochi wa warui ongaku o kiita ato no kandō ni hijō ni niteita.
  That feeling was exactly like the way I feel after listening to bad music.

Synonyms

ミュージック (myūjikku)

Derived terms

音楽(おんがく)ゲーム (ongaku gēmu)
音楽(おんがく)大学(だいがく) (ongaku daigaku)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Okinawan

Kanji in this term
音	楽
うん Grade: 1	がく Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
音樂 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as うんがく.^[1] Borrowed from Japanese 音楽 (ongaku).

Not used in actual Okinawan.

Noun

音(うん)楽(がく) (ungaku)

(hapax legomenon, ghost word, obsolete) music

References

^ Nakamoto, Masayo (中本政世) (1896) 沖縄語典 [Documentation of the Language of Okinawa], Hikone (彦根市): Eishōdō (永昌堂), →DOI, page 23