島根

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See also: 岛根

Chinese

		island	radical (chem.); root; basis
trad. (島根)		島	根
simp. (岛根)		岛	根

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 島根(しまね) (Shimane).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Dǎogēn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˇ ㄍㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dou² gan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Dǎogēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˇ ㄍㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Dǎogen
  - Wade–Giles: Tao³-kên¹
  - Yale: Dǎu-gēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Daogen
  - Palladius: Даогэнь (Daogɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ kən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dou² gan¹
  - Yale: dóu gān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dou² gan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dou² gen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³⁵ kɐn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

島根

(～縣) Shimane (a prefecture of Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
島	根
しま Grade: 3	ね Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しまね (Atamadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Proper noun

島(しま)根(ね) • (Shimane)

Shimane, the name of a prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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