和歌山県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
和	歌	山	県
わ Grade: 3	か Grade: 2	やま Grade: 1	けん Grade: 3
goon		kun'yomi	kan'on

Alternative spelling
和歌山縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 和歌山 (Wakayama) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) わかやまけん [wàkáyámáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])^[1]
IPA^(key): [β̞a̠ka̠ja̠ma̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

和(わ)歌(か)山(やま)県(けん) • (Wakayama-ken)

a prefecture in the 近畿 (Kinki) region of Japan facing the Pacific Ocean; its capital city is also 和歌山 (Wakayama)

See also

紀伊(きい) (Kii)

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