In Japanese, "bicycle" is 自転車 (jitensha). It is a noun pronounced "jee-teh-n-shah".
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自転車 is written in kanji. Romanised as jitensha, it sounds roughly like "jee-teh-n-shah" to an English ear.
その自転車はとても便利です。
Sono Jitensha wa totemo benri desu.
That bicycle is very useful.
Jitensha (自転車) is the Japanese word for bicycle. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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Buy on Steam自転車 is romanised as jitensha. Say it roughly like "jee-teh-n-shah" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
自転車 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.
自転車 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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