岩手県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
岩	手	県
いわ Grade: 2	て Grade: 1	けん Grade: 3
kun'yomi		kan'on

Alternative spelling
岩手縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 岩手 (Iwate) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いわてけん [ìwátéꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [iβ̞a̠te̞kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

岩(いわ)手(て)県(けん) • (Iwate-ken) ^{←いはてけん (Ifateken)^?}

a prefecture in 東北 (Tōhoku) region of Japan; its capital city is 盛岡 (Morioka)

See also

三(さん)陸(りく) (Sanriku)
陸奥(むつ) (Mutsu)
陸(りく)前(ぜん) (Rikuzen)
陸(りく)中(ちゅう) (Rikuchū)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN