In Japanese, "pork" is 豚肉 (butaniku). It is a noun pronounced "boo-tah-nee-koo".
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豚肉 is written in kanji. Romanised as butaniku, it sounds roughly like "boo-tah-nee-koo" to an English ear.
豚肉が好きです。毎日食べます。
Butaniku ga suki desu. Mainichi tabemasu.
I love pork. I eat it every day.
Butaniku (豚肉) is the Japanese word for pork. 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豚肉 is romanised as butaniku. Say it roughly like "boo-tah-nee-koo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
豚肉 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.
豚肉 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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