和歌山

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Chinese

		waka	mountain; hill
simp. and trad. (和歌山)		和歌	山

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 和歌(わか)山(やま) (Wakayama).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Hégēshān

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄍㄜㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴ go¹ saan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Hégēshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄍㄜㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Hégeshan
  - Wade–Giles: Ho²-ko¹-shan¹
  - Yale: Hé-gē-shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hergeshan
  - Palladius: Хэгэшань (Xɛgɛšanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ kɤ⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: wo⁴ go¹ saan¹
  - Yale: wòh gō sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴ go¹ saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wo⁴ go¹ san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹ kɔː⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

和歌山

(～縣) Wakayama (a prefecture of Japan)
(～市) Wakayama (a city in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
和	歌	山
わ Grade: 3	か Grade: 2	やま Grade: 1
on'yomi		kun'yomi

Etymology

和歌 (waka) +‎ 山 (yama)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) わかやま (Nakadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Proper noun

和(わ)歌(か)山(やま) • (Wakayama)

Wakayama (the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan)
Wakayama (a prefecture in southeren Honshu, Japan)
a surname

References

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

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