Illustration: On the veranda of a modest home, a child plays a recorder with fingers carefully covering the holes. Beside them, a grandparent has stopped folding laundry and softly hums along, mouth rounded and one finger tracing the rise and fall of the familiar tune.

メロディー

merodii

melody, tune

Example sentences

このメロディーは多おおくの日本人にっぽんじんに知しられている。
This melody is familiar to many Japanese.
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彼かれはメロディーを口笛くちぶえで吹ふき始はじめた。
He began to whistle a tune.
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私わたしはあの歌うたのメロディーが思おもい出だせない。
I can’t remember the tune of that song.
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