栃木県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
栃	木	県
とち Grade: 4	き > ぎ Grade: 1	けん Grade: 3
kun'yomi		kan'on

Alternative spelling
栃木縣 (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms

(obsolete) 杤木縣, 橡木縣, 櫔木縣

Etymology

From 栃木 (Tochigi) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) とちぎけん [tòchígíꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [to̞t͡ɕiɡʲikẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

栃(とち)木(ぎ)県(けん) • (Tochigi-ken)

a prefecture in the 関東 (Kantō) region of Japan; its capital city is 宇都宮 (Utsunomiya)

See also

下野(しもつけ) (Shimotsuke)

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