In Japanese, "pot plant" is 鉢植え (hachiue). It is a noun.
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鉢植え is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as hachiue, it sounds roughly like "hah-chee-oo-eh" to an English ear.
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鉢植え 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.
鉢植え is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
This word is part of the vocabulary taught in the Japanese language learning game Noun Town, where words are introduced through play rather than memorisation.
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