湘南

Chinese
name of a river; Hunan province (abbrev.) south
simp. and trad.
(湘南)		 湘 南

Pronunciation

Proper noun

湘南

  1. southern Hunan

Japanese

Etymology

相模(さがみの)国(くに) (Sagami no kuni, “Sagami Province, shortened to 相”) + 南(なん) (nan, “southern part”). The use of 湘 instead of 相 is influenced by the name of Chinese river. [1]

Kanji in this term
湘 南
しょう
Jinmeiyō		 なん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Proper noun

湘(しょう)南(なん) • (Shōnan) 

  1. Shōnan, a region along the coast of Sagami Bay

References
  1. “湘南”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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