ジャンボ

ジャンボ · janbo · JLPT N1 · na-adj

jumbo

✈️ ジャンボ sounds like 'jumbo' itself: a jumbo jet is 'janbo jetto', so say 'jumbo' and you have the word.

Japanese borrowed the English 'jumbo' and rendered it as ジャンボ. Ja-n-bo maps almost directly onto jum-bo, so the sound is the hook.

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