In Japanese, "police officer" is 警察官 (keisatsukan). It is a noun.
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警察官 is written in kanji. Romanised as keisatsukan, it sounds roughly like "keh-ee-sah-tsoo-kah-n" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam警察官 is romanised as keisatsukan. Say it roughly like "keh-ee-sah-tsoo-kah-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
警察官 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.
警察官 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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