柳川
Chinese
willow | river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.) | ||
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simp. and trad. (柳川) | 柳 | 川 |
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 柳川 (Yanagawa).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
柳川
- (~市) Yanagawa (a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan)
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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柳 | 川 |
やな Grade: S | かわ > がわ Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) やながわ [yànágáwá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [ja̠na̠ɡa̠ɰᵝa̠]
Noun
柳川 • (yanagawa) ←やながは (yanagafa)?
- Short for 柳川鍋 (yanagawa-nabe).
Proper noun
柳川 • (Yanagawa) ←やながは (Yanagafa)?
- Yanagawa (a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan)
- a surname
References
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN