函館

See also: 函馆

Chinese

envelope; case; letter house; establishment
trad. (函館)
simp. (函馆)

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese (はこ)(だて) (Hakodate).

Pronunciation


Proper noun

函館

  1. () Hakodate (a city in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
はこ
Jinmeiyō
たて > だて
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) こだて [hàkódáté] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠ko̞da̠te̞]

Proper noun

(はこ)(だて) • (Hakodate) 

  1. 函館: Hakodate (a city in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
  2. a surname

Descendants

  • Russian: Хакода́те m (Xakodátɛ)

References

  1. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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