三河

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Chinese

		three	river
simp. and trad. (三河)		三	河

Wikipedia has articles on:

三河 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
三河 (Cantonese)
Sam-hô-chhī (Southern Min)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Sānhé

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄢㄏㄜˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saam¹ ho⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Sam-hô

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Sānhé
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄏㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sanhé
  - Wade–Giles: San¹-ho²
  - Yale: Sān-hé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanher
  - Palladius: Саньхэ (Sanʹxɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saam¹ ho⁴
  - Yale: sāam hòh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ ho⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ ho⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːm⁵⁵ hɔː²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-hô
  - Tâi-lô: Sam-hô
  - Phofsit Daibuun: samhooi
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sam⁴⁴⁻²² ho²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sam³³ ho²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sam⁴⁴⁻²² ho¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sam⁴⁴⁻³³ ho²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sam⁴⁴⁻³³ hɤ²³/

Proper noun

三河

(～市) Sanhe (a county-level city in Langfang, Hebei, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
三	河
み Grade: 1	かわ Grade: 5
kun’yomi

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三河

Etymology

From the presence of three rivers in the former province: 男(おと)川(がわ) (Otogawa), 豊(とよ)川(かわ) (Toyokawa), and 矢(や)作(はぎ)川(がわ) (Yahagigawa). The name 三川 (Mikawa) is included in the Kojiki.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) みかわ (Atamadaka – )
IPA^(key):

Proper noun

三(み)河(かわ) • (Mikawa) ^{←みかは (mikafa)^?}

Mikawa Province, an old province of Japan
A region in modern Aichi Prefecture where the province was located
a surname

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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