新潟
Chinese edit
new; newly; meso- (chem.) | saline land | ||
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trad. (新潟) | 新 | 潟 | |
simp. #(新潟) | 新 | 潟 |
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
新潟
- (~市) Niigata (the capital city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan)
- (~縣) Niigata (a prefecture of Japan)
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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新 | 潟 |
にい Grade: 2 |
かた > がた Grade: 4 |
kun’yomi |
Alternative spellings |
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新瀉 (nonstandard) 新泻 (abbreviation) |
Etymology edit
Compound of 新 (nii-, “new; fresh”) + 潟 (kata, “tidal flat; lagoon”), most likely in reference to the location. The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
新潟 • (Niigata) ←にひがた (nifigata)?
- Niigata (the capital city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan)
- Niigata (a prefecture of Japan)
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