テロップ

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Meanings

1

telop machine; character generator

Refers to the equipment or system used to overlay text or graphics onto a video signal. Originally a trademark.

from English Telop

放ほう送そう局きょくではテロップを使つかって緊きん急きゅう地じ震しん速そく報ほうを表ひょう示じする。
Broadcast stations use a telop machine to display earthquake early warnings.

2

on-screen text; caption; subtitle

The text or graphic itself that appears overlaid on a TV or video screen. Often used for news captions, variety-show commentary, or subtitles.

ニュース番ばん組ぐみのテロップで事じ件けんの概がい要ようが流ながれた。
A summary of the incident scrolled across the screen in the news program's captions.
この動どう画がには日本にほん語ごのテロップが付ついています。
This video has Japanese subtitles.

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Usage patterns

テロップを出だすto display an on-screen caption
ニュース番ばん組ぐみは速そく報ほうのテロップを出だした。
The news program displayed a breaking-news caption.
テロップが入はいるfor a caption to appear/be inserted
その場ば面めんには説せつ明めいのテロップが入はいっていた。
An explanatory caption appeared in that scene.
テロップを流ながすto run/scroll a caption across the screen
画が面めんの下したに選せん手しゅのコメントのテロップを流ながした。
They ran the player's comment as a scrolling caption at the bottom of the screen.

Related words

字じ幕まく sense 2
字幕 refers specifically to subtitles for translation or accessibility, while テロップ covers any superimposed text such as news captions or comedic remarks.
スーパーN5sense 2
スーパー (from 'superimpose') is an older broadcasting term for on-screen text that means much the same as テロップ, which is now the more common word.

Don't confuse with

字じ幕まく
字幕 specifically means dialogue captions or translations, whereas テロップ is any superimposed on-screen text or graphic, such as a news headline.

Counted with

台だいN4
stand; base; platform; table; rack · setting (of a gem); mounting · stock (in grafting) · counter for machines and vehicles · level; mark; range; decade (of one's life) · tall building (with a fine view); observation platform · plateau; heights

Etymology

From the English trademark 'Telop', a device for projecting opaque images onto a television screen. The Japanese term broadened to mean any superimposed text or graphics.