栃木県

Japanese
Kanji in this term
栃 木 県
とち
Grade: 4		 き > ぎ
Grade: 1		 けん
Grade: 3
kun’yomi kan’on
Alternative spelling
栃木縣 (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms
  • (obsolete) 杤木縣, 橡木縣, 櫔木縣

Etymology

From 栃木 (Tochigi) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) とちぎ​けん [tòchígíꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [to̞t͡ɕiɡʲikẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

栃(とち)木(ぎ)県(けん) • (Tochigi-ken) 

  1. a prefecture in the 関東 (Kantō) region of Japan; its capital city is 宇都宮 (Utsunomiya)

See also

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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