石川
Chinese edit
rock; stone; 10 pecks | river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.) | ||
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simp. and trad. (石川) |
石 | 川 |
Etymology edit
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 石川 (Ishikawa).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
石川
- (~縣) Ishikawa (a prefecture of Japan)
- An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 石川, Ishikawa
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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石 | 川 |
いし Grade: 1 |
かわ Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
Kanji in this term | |
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石 | 川 |
いし Grade: 1 |
かわ > がわ Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology edit
Compound of 石 (ishi, “stone”) + 川 (kawa, “river”). The kawa changes to gawa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
石川 • (Ishikawa) ←いしかは (isikafa)?
- Ishikawa (a prefecture of Japan; capital: Kanazawa)
- Synonym: 石川県 (Ishikawa-ken)
- Ishikawa (a town in Ishikawa district, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
- A former city in Okinawa island; now part of Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.
- Synonym of 賀茂川 (Kamogawa): a river in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
- Ishi River (rivers in Japan):
- Ishikawa (other places in Japan):
- The neighborhoods of Mizuho, Nagoya and of Taketoyo, in Aichi Prefecture.
- A neighborhood and train station in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Ishioka, Hitachinaka and Mito and of Ami, in Ibaraki Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Uruma and Motobu, Okinawa Prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Naka, Yokohama and of Fujisawa, in Kanagawa Prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Yosano, Kyoto Prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Ueki, Kumamoto Prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Kohoku, Shiga Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Shimizu, Shizuoka and of Numazu, in Shizuoka Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Ichihara and Sakura, Chiba Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Hachiōji and Ōta, Tokyo prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Fujioka, Tochigi Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Kashihara and Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Kamo and Jōetsu, Niigata Prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture.
- The neighborhoods of Hakodate and Muroran, Hokkaido prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Iga, Mie Prefecture.
- A neighborhood of Shinjō, Yamagata Prefecture.
- a surname
- 石川馨
- Ishikawa Kaoru
- Kaoru Ishikawa, organizational theorist known for the Ishikawa diagram
- 石川馨
石川 • (Ishigawa) ←いしがは (isigafa)?
Descendants edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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