岩手県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
岩 手 県
いわ
Grade: 2
て
Grade: 1
けん
Grade: 3
kun’yomi kan’on
Alternative spelling
岩手縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 岩手 (Iwate) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いわて​けん [ìwátéꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [iɰᵝa̠te̞kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

岩(いわ)手(て)県(けん) • (Iwate-ken) ←いはてけん (ifateken)?

  1. a prefecture in 東北 (Tōhoku) region of Japan; its capital city is 盛岡 (Morioka)

See also

References

  1. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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