アンコール

アンコール · ankooru · JLPT N1 · noun

encore

🎤 From French encore, meaning 'again': the crowd shouts it to demand one more song after the show.

Japanese borrowed the French word as-is, so katakana アンコール spells out 'encore'. Say it 'an-koo-ru', with the first syllable rhyming with 'on'.

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