祇園
Japanese
editKanji in this term | |
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祇 | 園 |
ぎ Jinmeiyō |
おん Grade: 2 |
goon |
Etymology
edit/ɡiwon/ → /ɡion/
Calque of Sanskrit जेतवन (Jetavana, literally “grove of Jeta”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
editProper noun
edit- Gion (a district of Kyoto)
- (Buddhism) Clipping of 祇園精舎 (Gion-shōja) or 祇樹給孤独園 (Giju gikkodokuon): Jetavana, a Buddhist monastery in India
- a surname
Derived terms
edit- 祇園町 (Gionchō)
References
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- Japanese terms spelled with 祇 read as ぎ
- Japanese terms spelled with 園 read as おん
- Japanese terms read with goon
- Japanese terms calqued from Sanskrit
- Japanese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms historically spelled with を
- Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Places in Kyoto
- ja:Places in Kyoto Prefecture
- ja:Places in Japan
- ja:Buddhism
- Japanese clippings
- Japanese surnames