In Japanese, "rooster" is 雄鶏 (ondori). It is a noun pronounced "oh-n-doh-ree".
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雄鶏 is written in kanji. Romanised as ondori, it sounds roughly like "oh-n-doh-ree" to an English ear.
動物園で雄鶏を見ました。
Doubutsuen de Ondori wo mimashita.
I saw a rooster at the zoo.
Ondori (雄鶏) is the Japanese word for rooster. Animal vocabulary is engaging for learners and appears frequently in games, zoos, farms, and nature programs.
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雄鶏 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.
雄鶏 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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