新潟

Chinese

		new; newly; meso- (chem.)	saline land
trad. (新潟)		新	潟
simp. ^#(新潟)		新	潟

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 新(にい)潟(がた) (Niigata).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xīnxì

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣㄒㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ sik¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xīnxì
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣㄒㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sinsì
  - Wade–Giles: Hsin¹-hsi⁴
  - Yale: Syīn-syì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shinshih
  - Palladius: Синьси (Sinʹsi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ ɕi⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    新潟
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: san¹ sik¹
  - Yale: sān sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: san¹ sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: sen¹ xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵/

Proper noun

新潟

(～市) Niigata (the capital city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan)
(～縣) Niigata (a prefecture of Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	潟
にい Grade: 2	かた > がた Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
新瀉 (nonstandard) 新泻 (abbreviation)

Etymology

Compound of 新 (nii-, “new; fresh”) +‎ 潟 (kata, “tidal flat; lagoon”), most likely in reference to the location. The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) にいがた [nìígátá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɲ̟iːɡa̠ta̠]

Proper noun

新(にい)潟(がた) • (Niigata) ^{←にひがた (Nifigata)^?}

Niigata (the capital city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan)
Niigata (a prefecture of Japan)

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

[NHK-1] 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

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