Katakana word

kiro “kilo” in Japanese

kiro

Character by character

  1. ki
  2. ro

キロ is made of 2 katakana sounds. It reads kiro.

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ジャングル

janguru — jungle · breakdown →

パーセント

pāsento — percent · breakdown →

ライオン

raion — lion · breakdown →

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