湘南
Chinese edit
name of a river; Hunan province (abbrev.) | south | ||
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simp. and trad. (湘南) |
湘 | 南 |
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
湘南
Japanese edit
Etymology edit
相模国 (Sagami no kuni, “Sagami Province, shortened to 相”) + 南 (nan, “southern part”). The use of 湘 instead of 相 is influenced by the name of Chinese river. [1]
Kanji in this term | |
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湘 | 南 |
しょう Jinmeiyō |
なん Grade: 2 |
on’yomi |
Proper noun edit
- Shōnan, a region along the coast of Sagami Bay
References edit
- ^ “湘南”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen][1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months