In Japanese, "cooker" is 炊飯器 (suihanki). It is a noun pronounced "soo-ee-hah-n-kee".
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炊飯器 is written in kanji. Romanised as suihanki, it sounds roughly like "soo-ee-hah-n-kee" to an English ear.
机の上に炊飯器があります。
Tsukue no ue ni Suihanki ga arimasu.
There is a cooker on the desk.
Suihanki (炊飯器) is the Japanese word for cooker. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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Buy on Steam炊飯器 is romanised as suihanki. Say it roughly like "soo-ee-hah-n-kee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
炊飯器 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.
炊飯器 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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