沖縄県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
おき
Grade: 4
なわ
Grade: 4
けん
Grade: 3
kun’yomi kan’on
Alternative spelling
沖繩縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 沖縄 (Okinawa) + (-ken, prefecture).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) きなわけん [òkínáwáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [o̞kʲina̠ɰᵝa̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

(おき)(なわ)(けん) • (Okinawa-ken) おきなはけん (okinafaken)?

  1. a prefecture of Japan comprising of islands south of 九州 (Kyūshū, Kyushu) between the Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea; its capital city is 那覇 (Naha)

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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