In Japanese, "scissors" is はさみ (hasami). It is a noun.
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はさみ is written in hiragana. Romanised as hasami, it sounds roughly like "hah-sah-mee" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamはさみ is romanised as hasami. Say it roughly like "hah-sah-mee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
はさみ 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.
はさみ is written using hiragana. Hiragana is the basic Japanese syllabary used for native words and grammatical elements.
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