砂川

Chinese

		sand; gravel; granule	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (砂川)		砂	川

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 砂川 (Sunagawa).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Shāchuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄔㄨㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Shāchuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄔㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Shachuan
    • Wade–Giles: Sha¹-chʻuan¹
    • Yale: Shā-chwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shachuan
    • Palladius: Шачуань (Šačuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

Proper noun

砂川

1. (～市) Sunagawa (a city in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
砂	川
すな Grade: 6	かわ > がわ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Proper noun

砂(すな)川(がわ) • (Sunagawa) 

1. Sunagawa (a city in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
2. a surname