白河

白河

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	river
simp. and trad. (白河)		白	河

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Báihé

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ ho⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): Pe̍h-hô

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Báihé
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Báihé
    • Wade–Giles: Pai²-ho²
    • Yale: Bái-hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Bairher
    • Palladius: Байхэ (Bajxɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ ho⁴
    • Yale: baahk hòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ ho⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ ho⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² hɔː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pe̍h-hô
    • Tâi-lô: Pe̍h-hô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peqhooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pe(ʔ)²⁴⁻² ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ ho¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ hɤ²³/

Proper noun

白河

1. (～縣) Baihe (a county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China)
2. (～市) Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
3. (～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)

Noun

白河

1. (literary) Milky Way

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
白	河
しら Grade: 1	かわ Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Compound of 白 (shira, “white”, compounding form) +‎ 河 (kawa, “river”).[1]

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) しら​かわ [shìráꜜkàwà] (Nakadaka – [2])[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾa̠ka̠ɰᵝa̠]

Noun

白(しら)河(かわ) • (shirakawa) 

1. a river with clear water
2. an area with small pebbles or sand spread out evenly, such as in a rock garden (from the visual similarity to a clear body of water)

Proper noun

白(しら)河(かわ) • (Shirakawa) 

1. a place name, such as that of Shirakawa City in Fukushima Prefecture
2. a domain during the Edo period
3. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
白	河
はく Grade: 1	が Grade: 5
on’yomi

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 白河 (MC bˠæk̚ ɦɑ).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• IPA^(key): [ha̠kɯ̟ᵝɡa̠]

Proper noun

白(はく)河(が) • (Hakuga) 

1. Baihe County, Shaanxi Province, China[3]

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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
3. Martin Collick, David P. Dutcher, Soichi Tanabe, and Minoru Kaneko. 2002. Kenkyusha's New College Japanese-English Dictionary fifth edition. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.