白河
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Chinese
white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous |
river | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (白河) |
白 | 河 | |
Pronunciation
Proper noun
白河
- (～縣) Baihe (a county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China)
- (～市) Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
- (～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)
Noun
白河
Japanese
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 白 | 河 |
| しら Grade: 1 |
かわ Grade: 5 |
| kun’yomi | |
Compound of 白 (shira, “white”, compounding form) + 河 (kawa, “river”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- a river with clear water
- an area with small pebbles or sand spread out evenly, such as in a rock garden (from the visual similarity to a clear body of water)
Proper noun
- Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
- a domain during the Edo period
- a surname
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 白 | 河 |
| はく Grade: 1 |
が Grade: 5 |
| on’yomi | |
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 白河 (MC baek ha).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- Baihe County, Shaanxi Province, China
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ^ Martin Collick, David P. Dutcher, Soichi Tanabe, and Minoru Kaneko. 2002. Kenkyusha's New College Japanese-English Dictionary fifth edition. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.