スタジオ

Japanese

スタジオ on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

Internationalism. Perhaps from English studio, whose English vowel /uː/ is transcribed into Japanese as a instead of *u or *ū, perhaps due to phonetic confusion with study. Compare Italian studio (“room for study”), English study (“room for reading and writing”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) スタジオ [sùtájíó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [sɨ̥ta̠ʑio̞]

Noun

スタジオ • (sutajio)

a studio

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] 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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