In Japanese, "bull" is 雄牛 (oushi). It is a noun pronounced "oh-oo-shee".
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雄牛 is written in kanji. Romanised as oushi, it sounds roughly like "oh-oo-shee" to an English ear.
子供たちは雄牛を見て喜んでいます。
Kodomotachi wa Oushi wo mite yorokondeimasu.
The children are delighted to see the bull.
Oushi (雄牛) is the Japanese word for bull. Animal vocabulary is engaging for learners and appears frequently in games, zoos, farms, and nature programs.
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Buy on Steam雄牛 is romanised as oushi. Say it roughly like "oh-oo-shee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
雄牛 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.
雄牛 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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