Fukushima

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 福島(ふくしま) (Fukushima).

Proper noun

Fukushima (plural Fukushimas)

1. The capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
2. A prefecture of Japan.
   • 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:

     Fukushima prefecture, located just south of Miyagi, was also part of the ancestral lands of the Emishi.

3. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.
4. A surname from Japanese.

Translations

Fukushima, Japan

• Arabic: فُوكُوشِيمَا f (fukušīmā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 福島 / 福岛 (zh) (Fúdǎo)

• Czech: Fukušima (cs)
• Dutch: Fukushima
• Japanese: 福島 (ja) (ふくしま, Fukushima)
• Korean: 후쿠시마 (Hukusima)
• Marathi: फुकुशिमा (phukuśimā)
• Portuguese: Fukushima (pt)
• Russian: Фукуси́ма (ru) f (Fukusíma)
• Swedish: Fukushima
• Thai: ฟูกูชิมะ (fuu-guu-chí-má)
• Ukrainian: Фукусі́ма (uk) f (Fukusíma)

See also

prefectures of Japanedit

• Aichi
• Akita
• Aomori
• Chiba
• Ehime
• Fukui
• Fukuoka
• Fukushima
• Gifu
• Gunma
• Hiroshima
• Hokkaidō
• Hyōgo
• Ibaraki
• Ishikawa
• Iwate
• Kagawa
• Kagoshima
• Kanagawa
• Kōchi
• Kumamoto
• Kyoto
• Mie
• Miyagi
• Miyazaki
• Nagano
• Nagasaki
• Nara
• Niigata
• Ōita
• Okayama
• Okinawa
• Osaka
• Saga
• Saitama
• Shiga
• Shimane
• Shizuoka
• Tochigi
• Tokushima
• Tokyo
• Tottori
• Toyama
• Wakayama
• Yamagata
• Yamaguchi
• Yamanashi

Japanese

Romanization

Fukushima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふくしま

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Fucuxima

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 福島 (Fukushima).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃĩ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃĩ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃi.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃi.mɐ/

Proper noun

Fukushima

1. Fukushima (a city and prefecture of Japan)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of Japanese 福島 (Fukushima).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /fukuˈʃima/ [fʊ.xʊˈʃiː.mɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /pukuˈʃima/ [pʊ.xʊˈʃiː.mɐ], (more native-sounding, no yod coalescence) /fukusˈjima/ [fʊ.xʊsˈjiː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: Fu‧ku‧shi‧ma

Proper noun

Fukushima (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜓᜐ᜔ᜌᜒᜋ)

1. a surname from Japanese

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fukushima is the 137,318^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 36 individuals.