歌舞伎町

Chinese

		kabuki	raised path between fields
trad. (歌舞伎町)		歌舞伎	町
simp. ^#(歌舞伎町)		歌舞伎	町

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 歌(か)舞(ぶ)伎(き)町(ちょう) (Kabukichō).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Gēwǔjì Dīng

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄜㄨˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄉㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): go¹ mou⁵ gei⁶ ding¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Gēwǔjì Dīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄜㄨˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄉㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Gewǔjì Ding
  - Wade–Giles: Ko¹-wu³-chi⁴ Ting¹
  - Yale: Gē-wǔ-jì Dīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gewuujih Ding
  - Palladius: Гэуцзи Дин (Gɛuczi Din)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵ u²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi⁵¹ tiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: go¹ mou⁵ gei⁶ ding¹
  - Yale: gō móuh geih dīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: go¹ mou⁵ gei⁶ ding¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: go¹ mou⁵ géi⁶ ding¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔː⁵⁵ mou̯¹³ kei̯²² tɪŋ⁵⁵/

Proper noun

歌舞伎町

Kabukicho (a district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan)

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
歌	舞	伎	町
か Grade: 2	ぶ Grade: S	き Grade: S	ちょう Grade: 1
on'yomi

歌舞伎 +‎ 町. From being a district (町 (“town”)) that developed around a proposed kabuki (歌舞伎) theatre, although the theatre was never built.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟kʲi̥t͡ɕo̞ː]

Proper noun

歌(か)舞(ぶ)伎(き)町(ちょう) • (Kabukichō) ^{←かぶきちやう (Kabukityau)^?}

Kabukicho (a district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan)

Descendants

→ English: Kabukicho

Further reading

Kabukichō, Tokyo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia