In Japanese, "beef" is 牛肉 (gyūniku). It is a noun pronounced "gyoo-nee-koo".
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牛肉 is written in kanji. Romanised as gyūniku, it sounds roughly like "gyoo-nee-koo" to an English ear.
牛肉が好きです。毎日食べます。
Gyūniku ga suki desu. Mainichi tabemasu.
I love beef. I eat it every day.
Gyūniku (牛肉) is the Japanese word for beef. Food vocabulary is among the most practical for daily life in Japan and is used constantly in markets, restaurants, and home cooking.
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Buy on Steam牛肉 is romanised as gyūniku. Say it roughly like "gyoo-nee-koo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
牛肉 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.
牛肉 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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