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お手洗いotearai toilet, bathroom

o honorific prefixお(honorific marker) as in おかあさん, おとうさん, おすし, おさけ, おかね, おやすみ.
手洗いtearai toilet, bathroomTell a lieらい about not flushing the toilet.
お手洗いotearai polite way to say toilet

While English word bathroom means ①a room to take a bath and ②a toilet," Japanese おてあらい means only ② but not ①.

手洗てあらいはどこですか。
Where is the toilet?

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