やまと

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of やまと – see the following entry.

[proper noun] a town in the Shikinoshimo district in the Yamato Province of Japan, generally equivalent to modern Tenri area

[proper noun] A city in Kanagawa Prefecture

[proper noun] one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture

[proper noun] the country of Japan

[proper noun] 大和: a World War II battleship (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

[proper noun] 大和: a male given name

[proper noun] 大和: a surname

Alternative spellings
倭, 和

(This term, やまと (yamato), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as やまと, see Category:Japanese kanji read as やまと.)