旭川

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Chinese

		dawn; rising sun	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (旭川)		旭	川

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旭川市

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 旭川 (Asahikawa).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xùchuān

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ ㄔㄨㄢ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xùchuān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ ㄔㄨㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Syùchuan
  - Wade–Giles: Hsü⁴-chʻuan¹
  - Yale: Syù-chwān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiuhchuan
  - Palladius: Сюйчуань (Sjujčuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

Proper noun

旭川

(～市) Asahikawa (a city in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
旭	川
あさひ Jinmeiyō	かわ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) あさひかわ (Nakadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Proper noun

旭(あさひ)川(かわ) • (Asahikawa)

A city in Hokkaido prefecture, 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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