志賀
Chinese edit
phonetic | |||
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trad. (志賀) | 志 | 賀 | |
simp. (志贺) | 志 | 贺 |
Etymology edit
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 志賀 (Shiga).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
志賀
- An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 志賀, Shiga
Derived terms edit
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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志 | 賀 |
し Grade: 5 |
が Grade: 4 |
goon |
Superficially 志 (shi, “determination”) + 賀 (ga, “celebration”). Shiga, the area near Lake Biwa, was the site of Emperor Tenchi’s palace in the late 7th century. In waka poetry 志賀 is often used to evoke nostalgia for the ancient empire.[1]
Compare 滋賀 (Shiga).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
- neighborhoods of Kita ward, Nagoya, and of Toyota, in Aichi Prefecture
- a neighborhood of Ranzan, Saitama Prefecture
- a neighborhood of Saku, Nagano Prefecture
- a neighborhood of Yoshino, Nara Prefecture
- the neighborhoods of Iwanuma and Misato, Miyagi Prefecture
- the neighborhoods of Katsuragi and Hidaka, Wakayama Prefecture
- former name for the area southwest to Biwa and around Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
- a surname
- 志賀潔
- Shiga Kiyoshi
- Kiyoshi Shiga, physician and eponym of the Shigella genus
- 志賀潔
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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志 | 賀 |
し Grade: 5 |
か Grade: 4 |
kan’on |
Attested in the Man’yōshū, c. 759, in reference to Shikanoshima.[2]
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Proper noun edit
References edit
- ^ Kitahara Yasuo, editor (2004), “しが 【志賀】”, in Shōgakkan zenbun zen'yaku kogo jiten [Shogakkan’s unabridged dictionary of archaisms]
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN