サイゴン
Japanese
[edit]| Alternative spellings |
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| 西貢 (obsolete) 柴棍 (obsolete) |
Etymology
[edit]Ultimately borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.
The kanji spellings 西貢, 柴棍 are considered to be ateji.[1] However, the 柴棍 spelling is rooted in the Vietnamese etymology of the name; see Sài Gòn for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- (historical) Saigon (a city in Vietnam), the former name of modern Ho Chi Minh City
References
[edit]- ^ “サイゴン”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006