In Japanese, "hairdresser" is 美容師 (biyōshi). It is a noun pronounced "bee-yoh-shee".
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美容師 is written in kanji. Romanised as biyōshi, it sounds roughly like "bee-yoh-shee" to an English ear.
彼女は美容師として働いています。
Kanojo wa biyōshi toshite hataraite imasu.
She works as a hairdresser.
Biyōshi (美容師) is the Japanese word for hairdresser. Job titles in Japanese use a variety of endings: shi (士) for licensed professionals, sha (者) for workers, while modern roles often use katakana loanwords.
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Buy on Steam美容師 is romanised as biyōshi. Say it roughly like "bee-yoh-shee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
美容師 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.
美容師 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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