In Japanese, "toothpaste" is 歯磨き粉 (hamigakiko). It is a noun.
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歯磨き粉 is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as hamigakiko, it sounds roughly like "hah-mee-gah-kee-koh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam歯磨き粉 is romanised as hamigakiko. Say it roughly like "hah-mee-gah-kee-koh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
歯磨き粉 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.
歯磨き粉 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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