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J-Pop

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

Noun capitalized: J-pop

J-pop (uncountable)

  1. Japanese pop music influenced by Western genres.
    • The girls are constantly reshuffled into new permutations in order to feed the J-pop market's insatiable demand for fresh looks and faces.2005 August 21, Chris Campion, “J-Pop's dream factory”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021
    • She may be declining in popularity, relevance and quality, but Ayumi Hamasaki is still the undisputed Queen of J-Pop, and it will be a long while before anyone can surpass her.2010 March 25, Teresa Nieman, “Why Japanese pop matters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2019

Forms of J-Pop

alternative formJ-Pop
alternative formJpop
alternative formJPop

Origin of J-Pop

Borrowed from Japanese J-POP (jeipoppu), from J- + pop, an abbreviation of English Japanese pop, coined by Tokyo radio station J‑WAVE in 1988.

Questions about J-Pop

What does J-Pop mean?
J-Pop means japanese pop music influenced by Western genres.
What is J-Pop the alternative letter-case form of?
J-Pop is the alternative letter-case form of J-pop.
What part of speech is J-Pop?
J-Pop is a noun.

Words near J-Pop in the dictionary

  1. J-O
  2. J-Oed
  3. J-Oing
  4. J-Os
  5. J-pole antenna
  6. J-Pop
  7. J-rock
  8. J-school
  9. J-schools
  10. J-shaped
  11. j-slur

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: J-Pop (page history and authors); J-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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