愛媛

See also: 爱媛

Chinese
 
to love; affection; to be fond of
to love; affection; to be fond of; to like
 a beauty
trad. (愛媛) 愛 媛
simp. (爱媛) 爱 媛

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 愛媛 (Ehime).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

愛媛

  1. (～縣) Ehime (a prefecture of Japan)

Japanese
Kanji in this term
愛 媛
え
Grade: 4		 ひめ
Grade: 4
nanori kun’yomi

Etymology

⟨epi1me1⟩ → /epʲimʲe/ → /eɸime/ → /ehime/

From Old Japanese 愛比賣 (epi1me1, literally “loveable girl”), an epithet of Iyo Province according to the Kojiki (712 CE).[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

愛(え)媛(ひめ) • (Ehime) 

  1. Short for 愛媛県 (Ehime-ken): Ehime Prefecture
  2. a female given name

References
  1. Herbert E. Plutschow (1990) Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature (Volume 1 of Brill's Japanese Studies Library), BRILL, →ISBN, page 76
  2. 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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