In Japanese, "dish towel" is ふきん (fukin). It is a noun pronounced "foo-kee-n".
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ふきん is written in hiragana. Romanised as fukin, it sounds roughly like "foo-kee-n" to an English ear.
そのふきんはとても便利です。
Sono Fukin wa totemo benri desu.
That dish towel is very useful.
Fukin (ふきん) is the Japanese word for dish towel. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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Buy on Steamふきん is romanised as fukin. Say it roughly like "foo-kee-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
ふきん 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.
ふきん is written using hiragana. Hiragana is the basic Japanese syllabary used for native words and grammatical elements.
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