トーン

トーン · toon · JLPT N1 · noun

tone

🎵 Same sound as English 'tone': トーン is a loanword borrowed straight from English.

Japanese took the English word 'tone' and kept its pronunciation, adjusting it to the katakana syllables トー and ン. If you know the English word, you already know this one.

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