ソ連

Japanese

Kanji in this term
連
れん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Alternative spellings
蘇連 (dated) 蘇聯 (dated) ソ聯 (dated)

Etymology

Compare Chinese 蘇聯／苏联 (Sūlián), Korean 소련(蘇聯) (Soryeon), Vietnamese Liên Xô.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ソれん [sóꜜrèǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [so̞ɾẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

ソ連(れん) • (Soren)

Clipping of ソビエト連邦 (Sobieto Renpō, “Soviet Union (a former country)”).
- 1999 September 16, Katou, Motohiro, “ヤコブの階(かい)段(だん) [Jacob’s Ladder]”, in Ｑ.(キュー)Ｅ.(イー)Ｄ.(ディー) 証(しょう)明(めい)終(しゅう)了(りょう) [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 90:
  
  ソ連(れん)が崩(ほう)壊(かい)して東(とう)西(ざい)冷(れい)戦(せん)は終(お)わったんだ
  Soren ga hōkai shite Tōzai Reisen wa owatta n da
  The Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended.

Synonyms

ソ (So, abbreviation)
蘇(そ) (So, abbreviation, dated)
ソ連(れん)邦(ぽう) (Sorenpō)
蘇(そ)聯(れん)邦(ぽう), ソ聯(れん)邦(ぽう) (Sorenpō, dated)
赤(せき)露(ろ) (Sekiro, dated)

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