Japanese edit

 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Kanji in this term
やま
Grade: 1
かた > がた
Grade: 2
けん
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
山形縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

From 山形 (Yamagata) +‎ (-ken, prefecture).

Pronunciation edit

  • (Tokyo) まがたけん [yàmágátáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ma̠ɡa̠ta̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun edit

(やま)(がた)(けん) (Yamagata-ken

  1. a prefecture in 東北 (Tōhoku) region of Japan; its capital city is also 山形 (Yamagata)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN