広島県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ひろ
Grade: 2
しま
Grade: 3
けん
Grade: 3
kun’yomi kan’on
Alternative spelling
廣島縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 広島 (Hiroshima) + (-ken, prefecture).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ろしまけん [hìróshímáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [çiɾo̞ɕima̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

(ひろ)(しま)(けん) • (Hiroshima-ken) 

  1. a prefecture in the 中国 (Chūgoku) region of Japan facing the Seto Inland Sea; its capital city is also 広島 (Hiroshima)

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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