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First opened Wednesday, December 9, 2009

デモ

デモ

  • head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

demo, demonstration

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)外来語 · LoanwordClipping

デモ is a clipped デモンストレーション, and Korean has a form 데모 to compare.

Taken apart

No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

  • “Shortening of デモンストレーション (demonsutorēshon). Also see Korean 데모 (demo).”

Source: Wiktionary: デモ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

外来語 Loanword
Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
Clipping
A longer word or phrase shortened in everyday use.

Related in the dictionary

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See also

Also read デモ

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • デモThis word

    demo, demonstration

    デ↓モ head-high (atamadaka)

  • でも

    but, however

    No pitch accent shown

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Also opened on December 9

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