土佐

土佐

Chinese

		earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	assist
simp. and trad. (土佐)		土	佐

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 土佐 (Tosa).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tǔzuǒ

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ ㄗㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou² zo³, tou² zo⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tǔzuǒ [Phonetic: túzuǒ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ ㄗㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tǔzuǒ
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻu³-tso³
    • Yale: Tǔ-dzwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tuutzuoo
    • Palladius: Туцзо (Tuczo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡swɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou² zo³, tou² zo⁶
    • Yale: tóu jo, tóu joh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou² dzo³, tou² dzo⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou² zo³, tou² zo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵ t͡sɔː³³/, /tʰou̯³⁵ t͡sɔː²²/

Proper noun

土佐

1. (～市) Tosa (a city in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
土	佐
と Grade: 1	さ Grade: 4
on’yomi

Proper noun

土(と)佐(さ) • (Tosa) 

1. Tosa (a city in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan)
2. Tosa Province, an old province of Japan
3. a surname