鳴門

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Chinese

		to cry (of birds)	opening; door; gate opening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; (taxonomy) phylum or division
trad. (鳴門)		鳴	門
simp. (鸣门)		鸣	门

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鳴門市

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鳴門 (Naruto).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Míngmén

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ mun⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Míngmén
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Míngmén
  - Wade–Giles: Ming²-mên²
  - Yale: Míng-mén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Mingmen
  - Palladius: Минмэнь (Minmɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵ mən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ming⁴ mun⁴
  - Yale: mìhng mùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴ mun⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴ mun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹ muːn²¹/

Proper noun

鳴門

(～市) Naruto (a city in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鳴	門
な(る) Grade: 2	と Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
鳴戸

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

鳴門

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Naruto (disambiguation)

From Old Japanese.

Compound of 鳴る (naru, “to ring, roar, sound”) +‎ 門 (to, “gate, door”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) なると (Heiban – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

鳴(なる)門(と) or 鳴門(ナルト) • (naruto)

a noisy strait or narrows where the rushing of the tides causes noisy whirlpools
Short for 鳴門巻き (narutomaki): a kamaboko fishcake with a whirlpool design
(cooking) a technique in which ingredients are cut in spiral patterns

Derived terms

See also

渦潮(うずしお) (uzushio, “whirlpool”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鳴	門
な(る) Grade: 2	と Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

鳴門市

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Naruto, Tokushima

From Etymology 1 above.

The “edible seaweed” sense is associated with 鳴門若布 (Naruto wakame), which is traditionally made in Naruto, Tokushima.

Proper noun

鳴(なる)門(と) • (Naruto)

Short for 鳴門市 (Naruto-shi): A city in northwestern Tokushima Prefecture
Short for 鳴門海峡 (Naruto-kaikyō): Naruto Strait, famous for its eponymous whirlpools
a surname

Derived terms

Noun

鳴(なる)門(と) • (Naruto)

(cooking, colloquial) edible 若布 (wakame) seaweed used for cooking

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Old Japanese

Etymology

Compound of 鳴る (naru, “to ring, roar, sound”) +‎ 門 (to₁, “gate, door”).

Noun

鳴門 (naruto₁) (kana なると)

a noisy strait or narrows where the rushing of the tides causes noisy whirlpools
- c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3638:
  , text here
  巨礼也己能名爾於布奈流門能宇頭之保爾多麻毛可流登布安麻乎等女杼毛
  ko₂re ya ko₂no₂ na ni opu naruto₁ no₂ udusipo ni tamamo karu to₂pu ama woto₂me₁-do₂mo
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

Japanese: 鳴門, 鳴戸 (naruto)

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