新潟県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	潟	県
にい Grade: 2	かた > がた Grade: 4	けん Grade: 3
kun'yomi		kan'on

Alternative spelling
新潟縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 新潟 (Niigata) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) にいがたけん [nìígátáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɲ̟iːɡa̠ta̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

新(にい)潟(がた)県(けん) • (Niigata-ken) ^{←にひがたけん (Nifigataken)^?}

a prefecture in the 中部 (Chūbu) region of Japan facing the Sea of Japan; its capital city is also 新潟 (Niigata)

See also

越佐(えっさ) (Essa)
越(えち)後(ご) (Echigo)
佐渡(さど) (Sado)

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