ソ連

Japanese

Kanji in this term
連
れん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Alternative spellings
蘇連 (dated) 蘇聯 (dated) ソ聯 (dated)

Etymology

Compare Chinese 蘇聯／苏联 (Sūlián), Korean 소련(蘇聯) (Soryeon), Vietnamese Liên Xô.

連 is a daiyōji replacing 聯.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ソれん [sóꜜrèǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [so̞ɾẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

ソ連(れん) • (Soren)

Clipping of ソビエト連邦 (Sobieto Renpō, “Soviet Union (a former country)”).
- 1999 September 16, Motohiro Katou, “ヤコブの階(かい)段(だん)”, in [Ｑ.](キュー)[Ｅ.](イー)[Ｄ.](ディー) [証](しょう)[明](めい)[終](しゅう)[了](りょう) ([Ｑ.](キュー)[Ｅ.](イー)[Ｄ.](ディー) [証](しょう)[明](めい)[終](しゅう)[了](りょう)), volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 90:
  
  ソ連(れん)が崩(ほう)壊(かい)して東(とう)西(ざい)冷(れい)戦(せん)は終(お)わったんだ
  Soren ga hōkai shite Tōzai Reisen wa owatta n da
  The Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended.

Synonyms

旧(きゅう)ソ連(れん) (Kyū Soren)
ソ (So, abbreviation)
蘇(そ) (So, abbreviation, dated)
ソ連(れん)邦(ぽう) (Sorenpō)
蘇(そ)聯(れん)邦(ぽう), ソ聯(れん)邦(ぽう) (Sorenpō, dated)
赤(せき)露(ろ) (Sekiro, dated)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.