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Chinese
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duck
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river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
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trad. (鴨川)
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鴨
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川
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simp. (鸭川)
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鸭
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川
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Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鴨川 (Kamogawa).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
鴨川
- (~市) Kamogawa (a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan)
Japanese
Etymology
Compound of 鴨 (kamo, “duck”) + 川 (kawa, “river”). The kawa changes to gawa due to rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
鴨川 • (Kamogawa) ←かもがは (Kamogafa)?
- Kamogawa (a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan), located on the southeast of the Bōsō Peninsula; developed as a fishing village in the early Edo period, later becoming a seaside resort town
- the Kamo River in Kyōto Prefecture, Japan, a tributary of the 淀川 (Yodogawa, “Yodo River”)
- traditionally, the Kamo River downstream from the point of confluence with the Takano River (高野川, Takanogawa), with the upstream portion spelled either 賀茂川 or 加茂川 (both read as Kamogawa)
- The official spelling of the river name, both upstream and downstream, was unified as 鴨川 by a legal change in 1964. The use of 鴨 may be ateji, however, as initial mentions of the river used the 賀茂川 spelling, and the surrounding area was controlled by the 賀茂 (Kamo) clan.
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