In Japanese, "fishing rod" is 釣り竿 (tsurizao). It is a noun.
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釣り竿 is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as tsurizao, it sounds roughly like "tsoo-ree-zah-oh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam釣り竿 is romanised as tsurizao. Say it roughly like "tsoo-ree-zah-oh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
釣り竿 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.
釣り竿 is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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