In Japanese, "meat skewer" is 串カツ (kushikatsu). It is a noun pronounced "koo-shee-kah-tsoo".
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串カツ is written in kanji and katakana. Romanised as kushikatsu, it sounds roughly like "koo-shee-kah-tsoo" to an English ear.
このお店の串カツはとてもおいしいです。
Kono omise no Kushikatsu wa totemo oishii desu.
The meat skewer at this shop is very delicious.
Kushikatsu (串カツ) is the Japanese word for meat skewer. Food vocabulary is among the most practical for daily life in Japan and is used constantly in markets, restaurants, and home cooking.
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Buy on Steam串カツ is romanised as kushikatsu. Say it roughly like "koo-shee-kah-tsoo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
串カツ 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.
串カツ is written using kanji and katakana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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