ティシュペーパー

ティシュペーパー · teィshupeepaa · JLPT N1 · noun

tissue

ティシュペーパー — tissue

🧻 ティシュ + ペーパー = tissue + paper, the English compound said in katakana

Both halves are English loanwords. Tissue becomes ティシュ (tishu) and paper becomes ペーパー (pēpā). Katakana adds vowels to English sounds, so the whole word is just tissue paper spoken with Japanese sounds.

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