根室

Chinese

radical (chem.); root; basis room
simp. and trad.
(根室)

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 根室 (Nemuro).

Pronunciation


Proper noun

根室

  1. () Nemuro (a city in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
(ateji)
むろ
Grade: 2
(ateji)
kun'yomi

Etymology

From Ainu ネㇺ オロ コタン (nem oro kotan, place of ponds).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

()(むろ) • (Nemuro

  1. Nemuro (a city in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan)
  2. Nemuro (a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan)

References

  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