和歌山

Chinese

		waka	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (和歌山)		和歌	山

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 和歌(わか)山(やま) (Wakayama).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Hégēshān

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄍㄜ ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴ go¹ saan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Hégēshān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄍㄜ ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Hégeshan
    • Wade–Giles: Ho²-ko¹-shan¹
    • Yale: Hé-gē-shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hergeshan
    • Palladius: Хэгэшань (Xɛgɛšanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ kɤ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁴ go¹ saan¹
    • Yale: wòh gō sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴ go¹ saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁴ go¹ san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹ kɔː⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

和歌山

1. (～縣) Wakayama (a prefecture of Japan)
2. (～市) Wakayama (a city in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
和	歌	山
わ Grade: 3	か Grade: 2	やま Grade: 1
on’yomi		kun’yomi

Etymology

和歌 (waka) +‎ 山 (yama)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) わか​やま [wàkáꜜyàmà] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠ka̠ja̠ma̠]

Proper noun

和(わ)歌(か)山(やま) • (Wakayama) 

1. Wakayama (the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan)
2. Wakayama (a prefecture in southeren Honshu, Japan)
3. a surname