How to say "king-size" in Japanese
- 特大とくだいno-adjective, na-adjectiveThe common, everyday choice: it treats king-size as simply extra-large, marking something bigger than the largest regular size, as on food packaging or menus.
- no-adjectiveThe straight phonetic borrowing of the English term; less common than 特大, it appears where the English size name itself is used, above all for bed and mattress sizes.
Choose the common 特大 when king-size just means extra-large — something bigger than the largest regular size; the loanword 「キングサイズ」, less common, turns up mainly where English size names are kept, as with bed sizes.
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