In Japanese, "vent" is 通気孔 (tsūki kō). It is a noun.
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通気孔 is written in kanji. Romanised as tsūki kō, it sounds roughly like "tsoo-kee koh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam通気孔 is romanised as tsūki kō. Say it roughly like "tsoo-kee koh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
通気孔 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.
通気孔 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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