Cantopop en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkæn.təʊˌpɒp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkæn.toʊˌpɑp/ (General-American)
Etymology
Blend of Cantonese + pop.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Cantonese pop music, originating from Guangdong and Hong Kong.
Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.
2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:Earlier, a venerable British guitarist in wonderful tweeds had opined as how they hadn't really expected the next Hendrix to emerge from Taiwanese Canto-pop, but then again they hadn't actually been expecting the first one, had they?
1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 131:
Coordinates
H-pop · Pinoy pop · L-pop · C-pop · Mandopop · M-pop · P-pop · Q-pop · T-pop · V-pop · Indopop · J-pop · K-pop · I-pop · HK-pop
Synonyms
Translations (24)
id Pop Hong Kong (Cantonese pop music) · ar كَانْتُوبُوب (Cantonese pop music) · ru кантопо́п (Cantonese pop music) · ko 광동어 대중음악 (Cantonese pop music) · cmn 粵歌 /粤歌 (Cantonese pop music) · es cantopop (Cantonese pop music) · ja 香港ポップ (Cantonese pop music) · id Pop Kanton (Cantonese pop music) · ko 칸토팝 (Cantonese pop music) · ru канто́нский поп (Cantonese pop music) · sv kantopop (Cantonese pop music) · no cantopop (Cantonese pop music) · cmn 廣東歌 /广东歌 (Cantonese pop music) · yue 粵語流行曲 /粤语流行曲 (Cantonese pop music) · yue 粵語流行歌曲 /粤语流行歌曲 (Cantonese pop music) · pt pop cantonês (Cantonese pop music) · fr cantopop (Cantonese pop music) · ru канто́нская поп-му́зыка (Cantonese pop music) · cmn 粵語流行歌曲 /粤语流行歌曲 (Cantonese pop music) · fi kantopop (Cantonese pop music) · ja 香港ポップス (Cantonese pop music) · yue 廣東歌 /广东歌 (Cantonese pop music) · de Cantopop (Cantonese pop music) · ja 広東ポップ (Cantonese pop music)