山形県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やま
Grade: 1
かた > がた
Grade: 2
けん
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
山形縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 山形 (Yamagata) + (-ken, prefecture).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) まがたけん [yàmágátáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ma̠ɡa̠ta̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

(やま)(がた)(けん) • (Yamagata-ken) 

  1. a prefecture in 東北 (Tōhoku) region of Japan; its capital city is also 山形 (Yamagata)

See also

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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