チャイム

チャイム · chaimu · JLPT N3 · noun

chime

チャイム — chime

🔔 Straight from English chime: chai + mu, same sound in Japanese clothes

A katakana loanword from English chime. Japanese adds a vowel after the final m, so chime becomes chai-mu. In Japan it usually means the school bell or a doorbell ding-dong.

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