コード

コード · koodo · JLPT N3 · noun

code

🔌🎸 English code, cord and chord all become koodo in Japanese

コード is a loanword. Japanese has no separate th or r-ending sounds, so code, cord and chord all end up as the same word, koodo. Context tells you which one is meant: programming, a power cable or music.

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