美濃

See also: 美浓

Chinese
beautiful; beauty; America concentrated; dense
trad. (美濃) 美 濃
simp. (美浓) 美 浓

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 美濃(みの) (Mino), from Hakka 彌濃／弥浓 (Mì-nùng).

Proper noun

美濃

  1. (～區) Meinong District (Hakka district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 美濃(みの) (Mino).

Proper noun

美濃

  1. (～市) Mino (a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
Derived terms

Japanese

Etymology
Kanji in this term
美 濃
み
Grade: 3
(ateji)		 の
Grade: S
(ateji)
kan’on nanori
美濃 (Mino): the red marks the location of Mino Province in this 1868 map of Japan.

⟨mi1no1⟩ → /mʲinʷo/ → /mino/

From Old Japanese.[1][2][3]

The name of a province in ancient Japan, this appears in the oldest records of the 600s,[1] and again later in the Kojiki of 712 CE,[2] as 三野国 (Mino no kuni, literally “three + farm/field + 's + province”),[1] apparently because the region had three large farms. This shifted to 御野国 (Mino no kuni, literally “honorable + farm/field + 's + province”), by roughly 702 CE,[1] then a few years later in roughly 708 CE the spelling was officially changed to 美濃国 (Mino no kuni, literally “beautiful + rich/concentrated + 's + province”),[1] with this spelling then later becoming the only one.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

美(み)濃(の) • (Mino) 

  1. a placename, especially:
    1. (historical) Short for 美濃国 (Mino no kuni): Mino Province, an old province of Japan
    2. Short for 美濃市 (Mino-shi): Mino (a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
  2. Short for 美濃紙 (Mino-gami, “traditional Japanese paper made in the Mino area”).
  3. Short for 美濃絹 (Mino-ginu, “traditional Japanese silk made in the Mino area”).

References
  1. “美濃国”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
  2. “美濃国”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
  3. “美濃国”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
  4. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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