Japan is famous for its stationery. Many tourist from a foreign country seems to buy the stationery Japan original. If you know the Japanese name of the stationery, it might be useful someday. As an aside, when Japanese people study English first of all, we are learned phrase ” This is a pen “.
(これはペンです。)
So today we learn the Japanese words about stationery and the others items of stationery shop.
The list of Japanese words about the stationery.
| English | Japanese | kanji | Pronunciation |
| stationery | ぶんぼうぐ | 文房具 | BUNBOUGU |
| pen | ペン | PEN | |
| pencil | えんぴつ | 鉛筆 | ENPITU |
| mechanical pencil | シャープペンシル | SHA-PUPENSHIRU | |
| note | ノート | NO-TO | |
| book | ほん | 本 | HON |
| rubber | けしゴム | 消しゴム | KESHIGOMU |
| ruler | じょうぎ | 定規 | JYOUGI |
| protractor | ぶんどき | 分度器 | BUNDOKI |
| compass | コンパス | KONPASU | |
| scissors | はさみ | HASAMI | |
| cutter | カッター | KATTA- | |
| calculator | けいさんき | 計算機 | KEISANKI |
| fountain pen | まんねんひつ | 万年筆 | MANNENHITU |
| tape | テープ | TE-PU | |
| memo | メモ | MEMO | |
| brush | ふで | 筆 | HUDE |
| ink | すみ | 墨 | SUMI |
Almost all Japanese students is using mechanical pencil. The reason why we use it because we have to write kanji. It is suitable to write fine print.
Mechanical pencil is “シャープペンシル(SHA-PUPENSHIRU)” in Japanese. But typically it called for short シャーペン(SHA-PEN).
The list of Japanese words about the others item in stationery shop.
| English | Japanese | kanji | pronunciation |
| stationery shop | ぶんぼうぐや | 文房具屋 | BUNBOUGUYA |
| newspaper | しんぶんし | 新聞紙 | SHINBUNSHI |
| sticker | ステッカー | SUTEKKA- | |
| postcard | ポストカード | POSUTOKA-DO | |
| magazine | ざっし | 雑誌 | ZASSHI |
| weekly magazine | しゅうかんし | 週刊誌 | SHUUKANSHI |
| monthly magazine | げっかんし | 月刊誌 | GEKKANSHI |
| manga | マンガ | 漫画 | MANGA |
| book | ほん | 本 | HON |
| note | ノート | NO-TO | |
| pins | ピンバッチ | PINBACCHI | |
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