白河

Chinese
 
white; empty; blank
white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
 river
simp. and trad.
(白河)		 白 河

Pronunciation

Proper noun

白河

  1. (～縣) Baihe (a county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China)
  2. (～市) Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
  3. (～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)

Noun

白河

  1. (literary) Milky Way

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
白 河
しら
Grade: 1		 かわ
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Compound of 白 (shira, “white”, compounding form) +‎ 河 (kawa, “river”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) しら​かわ [shìráꜜkàwà] (Nakadaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɕiɾa̠ka̠ɰᵝa̠]

Noun

白(しら)河(かわ) • (shirakawa) 

  1. a river with clear water
  2. an area with small pebbles or sand spread out evenly, such as in a rock garden (from the visual similarity to a clear body of water)

Proper noun

白(しら)河(かわ) • (Shirakawa) 

  1. Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
  2. a domain during the Edo period
  3. a surname

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
白 河
はく
Grade: 1		 が
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 白河 (MC baek ha).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ha̠kɯ̟ᵝɡa̠]

Proper noun

白(はく)河(が) • (Hakuga) 

  1. Baihe County, Shaanxi Province, China[3]

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 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
  3. Martin Collick, David P. Dutcher, Soichi Tanabe, and Minoru Kaneko. 2002. Kenkyusha's New College Japanese-English Dictionary fifth edition. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.
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