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C-Pop

UK/ˈsiːˌpɒp/US/ˈsiˌpɑp/

C-Pop is the alternative letter-case form of C-pop.

Noun capitalized: C-pop

C-pop (uncountable)

  1. Chinese pop music influenced by western genres.
    • Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14

Forms of C-Pop

alternative formC-Pop
alternative formCpop
alternative formCPop

Origin of C-Pop

From C- (“Chinese”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.

Questions about C-Pop

What does C-Pop mean?
C-Pop means chinese pop music influenced by western genres.
What is C-Pop the alternative letter-case form of?
C-Pop is the alternative letter-case form of C-pop.
What part of speech is C-Pop?
C-Pop is a noun.
How do you pronounce C-Pop?
C-Pop is pronounced /ˈsiːˌpɒp/ (UK).

Words near C-Pop in the dictionary

  1. C-nucleosides
  2. C-peptide
  3. C-peptides
  4. C-pillar
  5. C-pillars
  6. C-Pop
  7. C-post
  8. C-posts
  9. C-PTSD
  10. C-rat
  11. C-ration

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: C-Pop (page history and authors); C-pop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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