In Japanese, "hat" is 帽子 (bōshi). It is a noun pronounced "boh-shee".
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帽子 is written in kanji. Romanised as bōshi, it sounds roughly like "boh-shee" to an English ear.
今日は新しい帽子を着ています。
Kyou wa atarashii Bōshi wo kite imasu.
I am wearing a new hat today.
Bōshi (帽子) means hat in Japanese. Clothing vocabulary is useful for shopping, describing outfits, and understanding fashion-related conversations.
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Buy on Steam帽子 is romanised as bōshi. Say it roughly like "boh-shee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
帽子 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.
帽子 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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