Japanese edit

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

Etymology edit

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 edit

Proper noun edit

ハルビン (Harubin

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

References edit

  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