新潟県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
にい
Grade: 2
かた > がた
Grade: 4
けん
Grade: 3
kun’yomi kan’on
Alternative spelling
新潟縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 新潟 (Niigata) + (-ken, prefecture).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いがたけん [nìígátáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟iːɡa̠ta̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

(にい)(がた)(けん) • (Niigata-ken) にひがたけん (nifigataken)?

  1. a prefecture in the 中部 (Chūbu) region of Japan facing the Sea of Japan; its capital city is also 新潟 (Niigata)

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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