デザイン

デザイン · dezain · JLPT N3 · noun

design

🎨✏️ Sounds just like English design: de-zai-n, borrowed from English

デザイン is a loanword taken straight from English design. Japanese has no lone z-sound ending a syllable, so it splits into de-za-i-n. Say design slowly with a Japanese accent and you get dezain.

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