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First opened Saturday, November 26, 2011

アンコール

アンコール

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3

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).

encore

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbintransitive verb外来語 · LoanwordBorrowing

アンコール is borrowed from English encore.

Taken apart

  1. アンコール

    アンコール

    English encore

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In a sentence

  • 歌手(かしゅ)に向(む)かって盛(さか)んなアンコールが起(お)こった。

    Everyone called out to the singer for an encore.

    Tatoeba #186778, translation #23914

  • そのピアニストはアンコールに応(こた)えて2曲(きょく)弾(ひ)いた。

    The pianist played two encores.

    Tatoeba #212708, translation #49991

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “Borrowed from English encore.”

Source: Wiktionary: アンコール (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.

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Also opened on November 26

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