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shīemu

a commercial; television ad

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Meaning & usage

nounshīemu[ɕiːe̞mɯ̟]
  1. a commercial; television ad

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from English CM, Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) initialism of commercial + message as in コマーシャルメッセージ (komāsharu messēji, literally “commercial message”). By surface analysis, コマーシャル (komāsharu) + メッセージ (messēji).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.