First opened Sunday, November 6, 2011
ソロ
ソロ
- 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).
solo
ソロ is borrowed from Italian solo.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼がソロを歌うとき、音程が外れるんじゃないかって、手に汗握っちゃうよね。
When he gets up on stage to sing one of his out-of-tune solos, I get so nervous for him that I get sweaty palms.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Borrowed from Italian solo.”
Source: Wiktionary: ソロ (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.