砂川

砂川

Chinese

		sand; gravel; granule	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (砂川)		砂	川

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 砂川 (Sunagawa).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Shāchuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄔㄨㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: Shāchuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄔㄨㄢ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shachuan
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

Proper noun

砂川

1. (～市) Sunagawa (a city in Hokkaido, Japan)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
砂	川
すな Grade: 6	かわ > がわ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Proper noun

砂川 (hiragana すながわ, rōmaji Sunagawa)

1. a place name, such as that of Sunagawa City in Hokkaido Prefecture
2. A surname​.