古田

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古田

1. (～縣) Gutian (a county of Ningde, Fujian, China)

• → English: Gutian, Kucheng

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古田

1. (～鎮) Gutian (a town in Shanghang, Longyan, Fujian, China)

• → English: Gutian

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “古田”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 659.

Compound of 古(ふる) (furu, “old, worn out”, noun) + 田(た) (ta, “field, paddy”). Literally, “old (rice) field”.

• (Tokyo) ふるた [fúꜜrùtà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ɾɯ̟ta̠]

• (Tokyo) ふった [fúꜜttà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟t̚ta̠]

古(ふる)田(た) • (furuta) 

1. (agriculture) old rice paddy; worn out, abandoned field

古(ふる)田(た) • (Furuta) 

1. Furuta (neighborhoods in Japan):
   1. a neighborhood of Nishinoomote, Kagoshima Prefecture
   2. a neighborhood of Motoyama, Kōchi Prefecture
   3. a neighborhood of Kawachi, Tochigi Prefecture
   4. a neighborhood of Harima, Hyōgo Prefecture
   5. a neighborhood of Oguni, Yamagata Prefecture
   6. a neighborhood of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture
2. a surname

古(ふっ)田(た) • (Futta) 

1. Futta (a neighborhood of Kawai, Iwate Prefecture, Japan)

The ta changes to da as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

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• IPA^(key): [ko̞ta̠]

• IPA^(key): [ko̞da̠]

古(こ)田(た) • (Kota) 

1. (history) the Honda feudal territory (知行地 (chigyō-chi)) of the Tosa Domain

古(こ)田(だ) • (Koda) 

1. Koda (a neighborhood of Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, Japan)
2. Koda (the neighborhoods of Shibata and Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan)

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 古田 (Gǔtián).

• IPA^(key): [ko̞dẽ̞ɴ]

古(こ)田(でん) • (Koden) 

1. Gutian (a county of Ningde, Fujian, China)