富士五湖

Japanese
Kanji in this term
富 士 五 湖
ふ
Grade: 4
(ateji)		 じ
Grade: 5
(ateji)		 ご
Grade: 1		 こ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

富士(ふじ) (Fuji) + 五(ご) (go, “five”) + 湖(こ) (ko, “lakes”)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ふじご​こ [fùjígóꜜkò] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝʑiɡo̞ko̞]

Proper noun

富(ふ)士(じ)五(ご)湖(こ) • (Fuji-goko) 

  1. the five lakes around Mount Fuji: 本(もと)栖(す)湖(こ) (Motosu-ko), 精(しょう)進(じ)湖(こ) (Shōji-ko), 西(さい)湖(こ) (Sai-ko), 河(かわ)口(ぐち)湖(こ) (Kawaguchi-ko) and 山(やま)中(なか)湖(こ) (Yamanaka-ko).

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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