Fukushima

Borrowed from Japanese 福島 (Fukushima).

Fukushima (plural Fukushimas)

1. The capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
2. A prefecture of Japan.
   • 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:

     Fukushima prefecture, located just south of Miyagi, was also part of the ancestral lands of the Emishi.

3. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.
4. A surname from Japanese.

• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi

Fukushima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふくしま

• Fucuxima

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 福島 (Fukushima).

Fukushima

1. Fukushima (a city and prefecture of Japan)

Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of Japanese 福島 (Fukushima).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /fukuˈʃima/ [fʊ.xʊˈʃɪ.mɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /pukuˈʃima/ [pʊ.xʊˈʃɪ.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: Fu‧ku‧shi‧ma

Fukushima (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜓᜐ᜔ᜌᜒᜋ)

1. a surname from Japanese

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fukushima is the 137,318^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 36 individuals.