Japanese

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 ハルビン市 on Japanese Wikipedia
Alternative spellings
哈爾浜
哈爾濱

Etymology

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Either borrowed from English Harbin or Mandarin 哈爾濱哈尔滨 (Hā'ěrbīn), both ultimately from Manchu ᡥᠠᡵᠪᡳᠨ (harbin, literally drying fishnets).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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ハルビン (Harubin

  1. Harbin (a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, in northeastern China)

References

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  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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN