How do you say "manhole" in Japanese?

マンホール is romanised as manhōru. Say it roughly like "mah-n-hoh-roo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.

マンホール 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.

マンホール is written using katakana. Manhōru is katakana from English manhole, a complete loanword adopted because Japanese needed a term for modern urban infrastructure systems..

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