蓄音機

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 蓄音機 is read as ちくおんき and means a gramophone or phonograph.
• Basic usage: It refers to a gramophone or phonograph, whether kept in a room or demonstrated at a museum.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• An old gramophone in a room
  • 蓄音機: An old gramophone stood in my grandfather's room. Example: 祖父の部屋に古い蓄音機が置かれていた。
• Hearing a phonograph at a museum
  • 蓄音機: We listened to sound from a phonograph at the museum. Example: 博物館で蓄音機から流れる音を聴いた。