新橋

Chinese

new; newly; meso- (chem.) bridge
trad. (新橋)
simp. (新桥)

Pronunciation


Proper noun

新橋

  1. San Kio (an area of Macau)
  2. () Xinqiao (a village in Huilong, Hanchuan, Xiaogan, Hubei, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しん
Grade: 2
はし > ばし
Grade: 3
on'yomi kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of (しん) (shin, new) + (はし) (hashi, bridge). The hashi changes to bashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んばし [shíꜜǹbàshì] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA(key): [ɕĩmba̠ɕi]

Proper noun

(しん)(ばし) • (Shinbashi

  1. a former bridge over the Nagahori River in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan
  2. a bridge over the Ishikari River in Asahikawa, Kamikawa subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan
  3. a former bridge over the Shiodome River in Shinbashi district, Minato, Tokyo prefecture, Japan
  4. a bridge's former name over the Kanda River in Nakano, Tokyo prefecture, Japan
  5. a bridge's former name over the Motoyasu River before it was destroyed by the atomic bomb, Little Boy, during WW2 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
  6. a commercial district of Minato, Tokyo prefecture, Japan
  7. a hanamachi in Ginza district, Chūō, Tokyo prefecture, Japan
  8. a town in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
  9. a district of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
  10. a district of Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  11. a district of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
  12. a district of Tomisato, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
  13. a district of Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
  14. a surname