志賀

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 志賀(しが) (Shiga).

志賀

1. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 志賀, Shiga

Compare 滋賀 (Shiga).

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• (Tokyo) し​が [shíꜜgà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) しが [shìgá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɡa̠]

• IPA^(key): [ɕika̠]

志(し)賀(が) • (Shiga) 

1. Shiga (several neighborhoods in Japan):
   1. The neighborhoods of Kita, Nagoya and of Toyota, in Aichi Prefecture.
   2. A neighborhood of Ranzan, Saitama Prefecture.
   3. A neighborhood of Saku, Nagano Prefecture.
   4. A neighborhood of Yoshino, Nara Prefecture.
   5. The neighborhoods of Iwanuma and Misato, Miyagi Prefecture.
   6. The neighborhoods of Katsuragi and Hidaka, Wakayama Prefecture.
2. Former name for the area southwest to Biwa and around Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
3. a surname

   志(し)賀(が)潔(きよし)

   Shiga Kiyoshi

   Kiyoshi Shiga, physician and eponym of the Shigella genus

志(し)賀(か) • (Shika) 

1. Shika (a town in Nishikawa prefecture, Japan)
2. Short for 志賀島 (Shikanoshima).

• → Chinese: 志賀／志贺 (Zhìhè)
• → English: Shiga