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First opened Friday, December 25, 2009

トラック

トラック

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2

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).

truck; (running) track

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

A truck has a twin in トロッコ, and a running track shares its spelling.

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.

  • “From American English truck. Doublet of トロッコ (torokko).”
  • “From English track.”

Source: Wiktionary: トラック (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.
Borrowing
Taken over from another language.

Other words so far that share a part, a process or a layer with this one, closest first. Each tag says what is shared; nothing here is a claim beyond what the entries already show.

Also opened on December 25

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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