熊本県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
くま
Grade: 4
もと
Grade: 1
けん
Grade: 3
kun’yomi kan’on
Alternative spelling
熊本縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 熊本 (Kumamoto) + (-ken, prefecture).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) まもとけん [kùmámótóꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [kɯ̟ᵝma̠mo̞to̞kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

(くま)(もと)(けん) • (Kumamoto-ken) 

  1. a prefecture in Japan on the central part of 九州 (Kyūshū, Kyushu); its capital city is also 熊本 (Kumamoto)

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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