テレビ

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Japanese

Pronunciation

Noun

テレビ (terebi

  1. Clipping of テレビジョン (terebijon, television); a TV
    テレビ(とう)(きょう)
    Terebi Tōkyō
    TV Tokyo
    • 1994 July 16, Isao Takahata, 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, spoken by the main narrator (Sandaimoku Kokontei Shinchō), Toho:
      しかし、テレビ(せっ)()(おも)わぬ()(もん)(ひろ)げた。
      Shikashi, terebi no setchi wa omowanu hamon o hirogeta.
      However, the installation of the TV has helped spread the unforeseen interests.
    • 1996 September 15, Mitsuru Adachi, “帰リ道その2”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム), volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 260:
      ぼくは、(べつ)にあわててはいなかった。もちろん(はじ)めての(けい)(けん)だったけど、TV(テレビ)やまんがではよく()きることだし、タイムスリップや、タイムトリップとかいう(こと)()()っていた。
      Boku wa, betsu ni awatete wa inakatta. Mochiron hajimete no keiken datta kedo, terebi ya manga de wa yoku okiru koto dashi, taimu surippu ya, taimu torippu to ka iu kotoba mo shitteita.
      I’m not really panicking right now. Of course this is the first time I’ve been in this situation, but this sort of thing happens on telly and in comics all the time, and it’s called time travel or something.

Descendants

  • Korean: 텔레비 (tellebi)

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN