KTV

量贩式KTV in Wuhan, Hubei, China

Meanings

Noun

  • Karaoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment.
  • Karaoke box, a karaoke entertainment establishment.

Proper Noun

  • Kondatam Television (a popular Tamil TV channel)

Origin

  • From Chinese KTV. Late 1980s Taiwanese Pseudo-English initialism from Japanese カラオケ + TV. Modelled after the earlier MTV "movie TV", which in turn repurposed the initialism from the earlier meaning "music TV", copied from the American cable TV network of that name. This term is chiefly used in mainland China, Taiwan and Cambodia and Chinese speakers globally.
  • From Kondatam TV.

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