愛媛

愛媛

See also: 爱媛

Chinese

		to love; affection; to be fond of to love; affection; to be fond of; to like	a beauty
trad. (愛媛)		愛	媛
simp. (爱媛)		爱	媛

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 愛媛 (Ehime).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Àiyuán

  (Zhuyin): ㄞˋ ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): oi³ wun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Àiyuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄞˋ ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Àiyuán
    • Wade–Giles: Ai⁴-yüan²
    • Yale: Ài-ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ayyuan
    • Palladius: Айюань (Ajjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: oi³ wun⁴
    • Yale: oi wùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: oi³ wun⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: oi³ wun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːi̯³³ wuːn²¹/

Proper noun

愛媛

1. (～縣) Ehime (a prefecture of Japan)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
愛	媛
え Grade: 4	ひめ Grade: 4
nanori	kun’yomi

Etymology

⟨epi₁me₁⟩ → /epʲimʲe/ → /eɸime/ → /ehime/

From Old Japanese 愛比賣 (epi₁me₁, literally “loveable girl”), an epithet of Iyo Province according to the Kojiki (712 CE).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) え​ひめ [éꜜhìmè] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [e̞çime̞]

Proper noun

愛(え)媛(ひめ) • (Ehime) 

1. Short for 愛媛県 (Ehime-ken): Ehime Prefecture
2. a female given name

References

1. Herbert E. Plutschow (1990) Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature (Volume 1 of Brill's Japanese Studies Library), BRILL, →ISBN, page 76
2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN