やまと

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of やまと – see the following entry.
【大和】
[proper noun] a town in the Shikinoshimo district in the Yamato Province of Japan, generally equivalent to modern Tenri area
[proper noun] a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
[proper noun] one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
[proper noun] the country of Japan
[proper noun] 大和: a World War II battleship (Should we delete(+) this sense?)
[proper noun] 大和: a male given name
[proper noun] 大和: a surname
Alternative spellings
倭, 和
(This term, やまと (yamato), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as やまと, see Category:Japanese kanji read as やまと.)
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