栃木

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Chinese

			tree; wood
trad. (栃木)		栃	木
simp. ^#(栃木)		栃	木
alternative forms		櫪木／枥木

Wikipedia has articles on:

栃木 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
栃木 (Cantonese)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Lìmù

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄇㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁶ muk⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Lìmù
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄇㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Lìmù
  - Wade–Giles: Li⁴-mu⁴
  - Yale: Lì-mù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Lihmuh
  - Palladius: Лиму (Limu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lai⁶ muk⁶
  - Yale: laih muhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁶ muk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: lei⁶ mug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²² mʊk̚²/

Proper noun

栃木

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

Japanese

Kanji in this term
栃	木
とち Grade: 4	き > ぎ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Etymology

Also called 橡木 or 杤木, the use of 栃 as official name was proposed in October 1872, and finalized in April 1879.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) とちぎ (Atamadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Proper noun

栃(とち)木(ぎ) • (Tochigi)

Tochigi (a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan)
Tochigi (a prefecture in eastern Honshu, Japan)
a surname

Derived terms

栃木県

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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