In Japanese, "corn" is 玉蜀黍 (tōmorokoshi). It is a noun.
Listen to the pronunciation:
玉蜀黍 is written in kanji. Romanised as tōmorokoshi, it sounds roughly like "toh-moh-roh-koh-shee" to an English ear.
Curated by Jack Ratcliffe
Practice 玉蜀黍 and hundreds more Japanese words in the game.
Buy on Steam玉蜀黍 is romanised as tōmorokoshi. Say it roughly like "toh-moh-roh-koh-shee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
玉蜀黍 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.
玉蜀黍 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
This word is part of the vocabulary taught in the Japanese language learning game Noun Town, where words are introduced through play rather than memorisation.
Spot an error? Email us at contact@noun.town