Cantopop

See also: cantopop

English

Etymology

Blend of Cantonese +‎ pop.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.təʊˌpɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.toʊˌpɑp/

Noun

Cantopop (uncountable)

1. (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

• Canto

 

Translations

Cantonese pop music

• Arabic: كَانْتُوبُوب m (kantubūb)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣東歌／广东歌 (gwong² dung¹ go¹), 粵語流行歌曲／粤语流行歌曲 (jyut⁶ jyu⁵ lau⁴ haang⁴ go¹ kuk¹), 粵語流行曲／粤语流行曲 (jyut⁶ jyu⁵ lau⁴ haang⁴ kuk¹)

  Mandarin: 粵語流行歌曲／粤语流行歌曲 (Yuèyǔ liúxíng gēqǔ), 廣東歌／广东歌 (Guǎngdōng gē), 粵歌／粤歌 (Yuègē)

• Finnish: kantopop
• French: cantopop (fr) f
• German: Cantopop m
• Indonesian: Pop Hong Kong, Pop Kanton
• Japanese: 香港ポップス (Honkon-poppusu), 香港ポップ (Honkon-poppu), 広東ポップ (Kanton-poppu)
• Korean: 칸토팝 (kantopap)
• Norwegian: cantopop
• Portuguese: pop cantonês m
• Russian: кантопо́п m (kantopóp), канто́нский поп m (kantónskij pop), канто́нская поп-му́зыка f (kantónskaja pop-múzyka)
• Spanish: cantopop m
• Swedish: kantopop

Coordinate terms

• C-pop
• HK-pop
• H-pop
• Indopop
• I-pop
• J-pop
• K-pop
• L-pop
• Mandopop
• M-pop
• Pinoy pop
• P-pop
• Q-pop
• T-pop
• V-pop