In Japanese, "aquarium" is 水族館 (suizokukan). It is a noun pronounced "soo-ee-zoh-koo-kah-n".
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水族館 is written in kanji. Romanised as suizokukan, it sounds roughly like "soo-ee-zoh-koo-kah-n" to an English ear.
部屋に水族館があります。
Heya ni Suizokukan ga arimasu.
There is a aquarium in the room.
Suizokukan (水族館) means aquarium in Japanese. This noun describes a feature or object found in indoor or outdoor environments.
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Buy on Steam水族館 is romanised as suizokukan. Say it roughly like "soo-ee-zoh-koo-kah-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
水族館 is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
水族館 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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