Katakana word

gorufu “golf” in Japanese

gorufu

Character by character

  1. go
  2. ru
  3. fu

ゴルフ is made of 3 katakana sounds. It reads gorufu.

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サーフィン

sāfin — surfing · breakdown →

バドミントン

badominton — badminton · breakdown →

スノーボード

sunōbōdo — snowboarding · breakdown →

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