ラジオ

Japanese

Alternative spelling
ラヂヲ (poetic)

First written use c. 1924, in a play entitled 葉桜 (Hazakura, literally “Cherry Blossoms”) by Kunio Kishida; see quotation.^[1]

ラジオ • (rajio) ^{←ラヂオ (radio)^?}

[since 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
- 1924 April 1, Kunio Kishida, “葉桜 [Hazakura]”, in Josei [Women's] Magazine‎^[6], volume 9, number 4:
  それから、「ラヂオをお引きになりませんの」って訊いたら、誰でもすることはしたくないんですって
  Then I asked him, “Why don't you turn on the radio?” He said he didn't want to do that.
- 2012 August 29, ころんば, “クロマグロが飛んでくる [The Bluefin Tuna Comes Flying]” (0:13)‎^[7]:
  ああラジオの隣に備えるプリンの
  期限は昨日まで
  aa rajio no tonari ni sonaeru purin no
  kigen wa kinō made
  ah, next to radio lies pudding we prepared
  which expires yesterday
[since 1952] (slang, dated) broke, having no money; dining and dashing (a wordplay on 無線 (musen, “wireless”) and 無銭 (musen, “moneyless”), replacing 線 (sen, “wire”) with its homophone 銭 (sen, “money”))
Synonyms: (no money) 無銭 (musen), (dining and dashing) 無銭飲食 (musen inshoku)
radiation (when used as part of a compound)
Synonym: 放射 (hōsha)

ラジオアイソトープ
rajio-aisotōpu
radioisotope

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 “ラジオ”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
^ “ラジオ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
^ “ラジオ”, in 改訂新版世界大百科事典 (Kaitei Shinpan Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Revised Edition”)‎^[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 2007, →ISBN
^ “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”)‎^[4] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
^ “ラジオ”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎^[5] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 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
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