沖縄県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
沖	縄	県
おき Grade: 4	なわ Grade: 4	けん Grade: 3
kun'yomi		kan'on

Alternative spelling
沖繩縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 沖縄 (Okinawa) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おきなわけん [òkínáwáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])^[1]
IPA^(key): [o̞kʲina̠β̞a̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

沖(おき)縄(なわ)県(けん) • (Okinawa-ken) ^{←おきなはけん (Okinafaken)^?}

a prefecture of Japan comprising of islands south of 九州 (Kyūshū, “Kyushu”) between the Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea; its capital city is 那覇 (Naha)

See also

琉球(りゅうきゅう) (Ryūkyū)

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