In Japanese, "clothes hanger" is 洋服ハンガー (yōfukuhangā). It is a noun.
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洋服ハンガー is written in kanji and katakana. Romanised as yōfukuhangā, it sounds roughly like "yoh-foo-koo-hah-n-gah" to an English ear.
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洋服ハンガー 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.
洋服ハンガー is written using kanji and katakana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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