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スタジオ
スタジオ
- flat (heiban)
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).
studio
Sutajio is an internationalism, perhaps from English studio, with its vowel transcribed as a, possibly through confusion with study.
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
スタジオに入れません。
We cannot go into the studio.
夜にスタジオでは電気をつけない。
I don't switch on the light in my studio at night.
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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.
Not settled
Wiktionary itself hedges on part of this word's origin — those lines are marked below.
- Hedged“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”).”
Source: Wiktionary: スタジオ (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.