ストロー

ストロー · sutoroo · JLPT N1 · noun

straw

🥤 Borrowed from English straw; Japanese inserts vowels to fit its syllables: su-to-ro-o

Each kana is one equal beat. The long-vowel mark ー holds the final o for an extra beat, so the word has four beats: su-to-ro-o.

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