白河
Chinese
[edit]white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous |
river | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (白河) |
白 | 河 | |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄏㄜˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Báihé
- Wade–Giles: Pai2-ho2
- Yale: Bái-hé
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Bairher
- Palladius: Байхэ (Bajxɛ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /paɪ̯³⁵ xɤ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: baak6 ho4
- Yale: baahk hòh
- Cantonese Pinyin: baak9 ho4
- Guangdong Romanization: bag6 ho4
- Sinological IPA (key): /paːk̚² hɔː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
Proper noun
[edit]白河
- (～縣) Baihe (a county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China)
- (～市) Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
- (～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)
Noun
[edit]白河
Japanese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 白 | 河 |
| しら Grade: 1 |
かわ Grade: 5 |
| kun'yomi | |
Compound of 白 (shira, “white”, compounding form) + 河 (kawa, “river”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- a river with clear water
- an area with small pebbles or sand spread out evenly, such as in a rock garden (from the visual similarity to a clear body of water)
Proper noun
[edit]- Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
- a domain during the Edo period
- a surname
Etymology 2
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 白 | 河 |
| はく Grade: 1 |
が Grade: 5 |
| on'yomi | |
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 白河 (MC baek ha).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- Baihe County, Shaanxi Province, China[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Martin Collick, David P. Dutcher, Soichi Tanabe, and Minoru Kaneko. 2002. Kenkyusha's New College Japanese-English Dictionary fifth edition. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.
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