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白河

Chinese

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white; empty; blank
white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
 
 river
simp. and trad.
(白河) 		白 河
 
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白河

  1. (～縣) Baihe (a county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China)
  2. (～市) Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
  3. (～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)

Noun

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白河

  1. (literary) Milky Way

Japanese

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
白 河
しら
Grade: 1 		かわ
Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Compound of 白 (shira, “white”, compounding form) +‎ 河 (kawa, “river”).[1]

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Noun

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白(しら)河(かわ) • (shirakawa) 

  1. a river with clear water
  2. an area with small pebbles or sand spread out evenly, such as in a rock garden (from the visual similarity to a clear body of water)

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白(しら)河(かわ) • (Shirakawa) 

  1. Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
  2. a domain during the Edo period
  3. a surname

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
白 河
はく
Grade: 1 		が
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 白河 (MC baek ha).

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白(はく)河(が) • (Hakuga) 

  1. Baihe County, Shaanxi Province, China[3]

References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Martin Collick, David P. Dutcher, Soichi Tanabe, and Minoru Kaneko. 2002. Kenkyusha's New College Japanese-English Dictionary fifth edition. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.
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