島原

Chinese

		island	former; original; primary former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source
trad. (島原)		島	原
simp. (岛原)		岛	原

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 島原 (Shimabara).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Dǎoyuán

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˇ ㄩㄢˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Dǎoyuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˇ ㄩㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Dǎoyuán
  - Wade–Giles: Tao³-yüan²
  - Yale: Dǎu-ywán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Daoyuan
  - Palladius: Даоюань (Daojuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɥɛn³⁵/

Proper noun

島原

(～市) Shimabara (a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
島	原
しま Grade: 3	はら > ばら Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しまばら [shìmáꜜbàrà] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕima̠ba̠ɾa̠]

Proper noun

島(しま)原(ばら) • (Shimabara)

the Shimabara Peninsula
Shimabara (a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan)
a surname

Derived terms

島原藩(しまばらはん) (Shimabara-han)
島原半島(しまばらはんとう) (Shimabara-hantō)

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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

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