ジャズ

ジャズ · jazu · JLPT N1 · noun

wind

🎷 ジャズ sounds like 'jazz' itself: 'jazu' rhymes with 'Jazz' (the music), so say 'jazu' the way you'd say 'jazz' in English.

The Japanese word is a direct loanword from English 'jazz', so the sound barely changes. Only the final 'z' gets a vowel: 'ju-zu', not the English 'jazz' with its stop.

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