川崎
Chinese edit
river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.) |
mountainous | ||
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trad. (川崎) | 川 | 崎 | |
simp. #(川崎) | 川 | 崎 |
Etymology edit
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 川崎 (Kawasaki).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
川崎
- (~市) Kawasaki (a major city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)
- An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 川崎, Kawasaki
- Kawasaki (a Japanese motorcycle manufacturer)
Derived terms edit
- 川崎病 (chuānqíbìng)
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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川 | 崎 |
かわ Grade: 1 |
さき Grade: 4 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology edit
Compound of 川 (kawa, “river”) + 崎 (saki, “headland”). Literally, “river cape”.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
- Kawasaki (the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan; ward of Kawasaki; station in Kawasaki); also:
- A town in Tagawa district, Fukuoka Prefecture; place in Kawasaki.
- A town in Shibata district, Miyagi Prefecture.
- A place in Gojōme and Hachirōgata, Minamiakita district, Akita Prefecture.
- A place in Tsukubamirai, Ibaraki Prefecture.
- A place in Hiji, Hayami district, Ōita Prefecture.
- A place in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture.
- A place in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.
- A place in Ōkawa, Tosa district, Kōchi Prefecture.
- A place in Hanyū, Hannō and Fujimino, Saitama Prefecture.
- A place in Sanmu, Chiba Prefecture.
- A place in Hamura, Tokyo prefecture.
- A place in Himi, Toyama Prefecture.
- A place in Agano, Nagaoka and Niigata, Niigata Prefecture.
- A place in Yahiko, Nishikanbara district, Niigata Prefecture.
- A place in Obama, Fukui Prefecture.
- A place in Makkari, Abuta district, Hokkaido prefecture.
- A place in Jūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
- Kawasaki, Japanese motorcycle manufacturer
- a surname
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ 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