In Japanese, "japanese food" is 和食 (washoku). It is a noun pronounced "wah-shoh-koo".
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和食 is written in kanji. Romanised as washoku, it sounds roughly like "wah-shoh-koo" to an English ear.
和食を使います。
Washoku wo tsukaimasu.
I use the japanese food.
Washoku (和食) is the Japanese word for japanese food. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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Buy on Steam和食 is romanised as washoku. Say it roughly like "wah-shoh-koo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
和食 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.
和食 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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