鴨川

鴨川

Chinese

		duck	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
trad. (鴨川)		鴨	川
simp. (鸭川)		鸭	川

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鴨川 (Kamogawa).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yāchuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚ ㄔㄨㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: Yāchuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚ ㄔㄨㄢ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Iachuan
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yachuan
    • IPA ^(key): /jä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰwän⁵⁵/

Proper noun

鴨川

1. (～市) Kamogawa (a city in Chiba, Japan)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
鴨	川
かも Jinmeiyō	かわ > がわ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 鴨 (kamo, “duck”) +‎ 川 (kawa, “river”). The kawa changes to gawa due to rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ka̠mo̞ɡa̠ɰᵝa̠], [ka̠mo̞ŋa̠ɰᵝa̠]

Proper noun

鴨川 (hiragana かもがわ, rōmaji Kamogawa, historical hiragana かもがは)

1. a city (市 (shi)) in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on the southeast of the Bōsō Peninsula; developed as a fishing village in the early Edo period, later becoming a seaside resort town
2. the Kamo River in Kyōto Prefecture, Japan, a tributary of the 淀川 (Yodogawa, “Yodo River”)
3. traditionally, the Kamo River downstream from the point of confluence with the Takano River (高野川, Takanogawa), with the upstream portion spelled either 賀茂川 or 加茂川 (both read as Kamogawa)

   The official spelling of the river name, both upstream and downstream, was unified as 鴨川 by a legal change in 1964. The use of 鴨 may be ateji, however, as initial mentions of the river used the 賀茂川 spelling, and the surrounding area was controlled by the 賀茂 (Kamo) clan.

Synonyms

• (city in Chiba Prefecture): 鴨川市 (かもがわし, Kamogawa-shi)
• (upstream portion of river in Kyōto): 賀茂川, 加茂川 (かもがわ, Kamogawa)

Further reading

• (Chiba): 鴨川市 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• (Chiba): Kamogawa, Chiba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (Kyōto): 鴨川_(淀川水系) on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• (Kyōto): Kamo River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia