動物
Kana: どうぶつ
animal
Example sentence
子供たちは動物が好きです。
こどもたちはどうぶつがすきです。
Children like animals.
What 動物 means
動物 (どうぶつ) is an Japanese word meaning “animal”. It belongs to the Things & Objects topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.