Cantopop
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Cantopop. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Cantopop, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Cantopop in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Cantopop you have here. The definition of the word Cantopop will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofCantopop, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: cantopop
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæn.təʊˌpɒp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæn.toʊˌpɑp/
Noun
Cantopop (uncountable)
- (music) Cantonese pop music, originating from Guangdong and Hong Kong.
- 1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 131:
- Earlier, a venerable British guitarist in wonderful tweeds had opined as how they hadn't really expected the next Hendrix to emerge from Taiwanese Canto-pop, but then again they hadn't actually been expecting the first one, had they?
- 2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 14:
- Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
Cantonese pop music
|