ラジオカセ

ラジオカセ · rajiokase · JLPT N5 · noun

player

ラジオカセ — player

📻 ラジオ + カセ = radio + casse(tte), clipped short

A loanword compound: ラジオ (rajio) is English radio, and カセ (kase) is カセット (kasetto, cassette) with the ending dropped. Japanese often clips long loanwords this way. Usually seen as ラジカセ, an even shorter clip.

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