タクシー
タクシー · takushii · JLPT N5 · noun
cab
🚕 Loanword from English taxi: ta-ku-shii, with a long final ii
Japanese cannot end a syllable in ks, so taxi is split into ta + ku + shi. The dash ー stretches the last vowel: ta-ku-shii. Written in katakana because it is a borrowed foreign word.