ライター

ライター · raitaa · JLPT N3 · noun

igniter

🔥✍️ Two English loanwords in one: lighter and writer both become raitaa

Japanese has no L/R distinction and drops the final -er to a long aa, so English lighter and writer collapse into the same katakana ライター. Context tells you which: a smoker wants the 🔥 one, a magazine hires the ✍️ one.

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