ハルビン

Japanese
Alternative spellings
哈爾浜
哈爾濱

Etymology

Either borrowed from English Harbin or Mandarin 哈爾濱／哈尔滨 (Hā'ěrbīn), both ultimately from Manchu ᡥᠠᡵᠪᡳᠨ (harbin, literally “drying fishnets”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ハ​ルビン [háꜜrùbìǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠ɾɯ̟ᵝbʲĩɴ]

Proper noun

ハルビン • (Harubin) 

  1. Harbin (a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, in northeastern China)

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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