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^お手洗い(otearai) toilet, bathroom

^お(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, bathroom^Tell(て) ^a(あ) ^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.

お^手洗(てあら)いはどこですか。
Where is the toilet?

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