函館

See also: 函馆

Chinese

envelope; case; letter house; establishment
trad. (函館) 函 館
simp. (函馆) 函 馆

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 函(はこ)館(だて) (Hakodate).

Pronunciation


Proper noun

函館

  1. (~市) Hakodate (a city in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
函 館
はこ
Jinmeiyō
たて > だて
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) はこだて [hàkódáté] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ha̠ko̞da̠te̞]

Proper noun

函(はこ)館(だて) • (Hakodate) 

  1. 函館市: Hakodate (a city in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
  2. a surname

Descendants

  • Russian: Хакода́те m (Xakodátɛ)

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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