In Japanese, "peach" is 桃 (momo). It is a noun pronounced "moh-moh".
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桃 is written in kanji. Romanised as momo, it sounds roughly like "moh-moh" to an English ear.
このお店の桃はとてもおいしいです。
Kono omise no Momo wa totemo oishii desu.
The peach at this shop is very delicious.
Momo (桃) is the Japanese word for peach. 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桃 is romanised as momo. Say it roughly like "moh-moh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
桃 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.
桃 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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