函館

See also: 函馆

Chinese

		envelope; case; letter	house; establishment
trad. (函館)		函	館
simp. (函馆)		函	馆

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 函(はこ)館(だて) (Hakodate).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Hánguǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˊ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haam⁴ gun²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hâm-koán

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Hánguǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˊ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Hánguǎn
  - Wade–Giles: Han²-kuan³
  - Yale: Hán-gwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Harngoan
  - Palladius: Ханьгуань (Xanʹguanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän³⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: haam⁴ gun²
  - Yale: hàahm gún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haam⁴ gun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ham⁴ gun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːm²¹ kuːn³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hâm-koán
  - Tâi-lô: Hâm-kuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hamkoarn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ham²⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/

Proper noun

函館

(～市) Hakodate (a city in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
函	館
はこ Jinmeiyō	たて > だて Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Ainu ハㇰチャシ (hak casi), meaning "shallow fort".

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はこだて [hàkódáté] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ha̠ko̞da̠te̞]

Proper noun

函(はこ)館(だて) • (Hakodate)

函館市: Hakodate (a city in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan)
a surname

Descendants

→ English: Hakodate
→ Russian: Хакода́те m (Xakodátɛ)

References

^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN