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Chinese
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big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
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a slope; hillside
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trad. (大阪)
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大
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阪
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simp. #(大阪)
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大
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阪
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alternative forms
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大坂
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Etymology
- “Osaka”
- Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大阪 (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
大阪
- (~市) Osaka (the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
- (~府) Osaka (a prefecture on the island of Honshu, Japan)
- An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 大阪・大坂, Ōsaka; or of 大阪・大坂, Ōzaka
Noun
大阪
- (Classical) great hill; great mountain; great slope
Japanese
Etymology 1
Compound of 大 (ō, “large, great”) + 阪 (saka, “hill”). The geographical area was historically known as 小坂 (Wosaka → Osaka, literally “little hill”) and was renamed to mean literally a “large hill”. [1][2]
Originally spelled as 大坂 until the early Meiji period, possibly for some superstitious reason.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
大阪 • (Ōsaka) ←おほさか (ofosaka)?
- a placename, especially:
- Short for 大阪府 (Ōsaka-fu): a prefecture in the 近畿 (Kinki) region of Japan facing the Seto Inland Sea
- Short for 大阪市 (Ōsaka-shi): the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- a surname
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Etymology 2
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The saka changes to zaka as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..
Pronunciation
Proper noun
大阪 • (Ōzaka) ←おほざか (ofozaka)?
- (obsolete) Alternative form of 大阪 (Ōsaka, placename)
2021, Todōfuken zukan [Prefectures picture book], page 88:
- 大阪府の由来 古くは「おさか」「おおざか」とよばれ、「小坂」「大坂」から明治維新後に「大阪」となった
- Ōsaka-fu no yurai Furuku wa “Osaka” “Ōzaka” to yobare, “Osaka” “Ōzaka” kara Meiji Ishin-go ni “Ōsaka” to natta
- Osaka prefecture origins: Formerly called “Osaka” or “Ōzaka” and written <小坂> or <大坂>, it became <大阪> after the Meiji Restoration
- a surname
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