In Japanese, "envelope" is 封筒 (fūtō). It is a noun pronounced "foo-toh".
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封筒 is written in kanji. Romanised as fūtō, it sounds roughly like "foo-toh" to an English ear.
新しい封筒を買いました。
Atarashii Fūtō wo kaimashita.
I bought a new envelope.
Fūtō (封筒) is the Japanese word for envelope. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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封筒 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.
封筒 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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