河内

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• (Tokyo) かわち [kàwáchí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠β̞a̠t͡ɕi]

• IPA^(key): [ka̠β̞a̠ɯ̟t͡ɕi]

河(かわ)内(ち) • (Kawachi) ^{←かはち (Kafati)?}

1. Kawachi Province (a former province of Japan)

   Synonym: 河州 (kashū)

2. Kawachi (places in Japan):
   1. a town in Ibaraki Prefecture
   2. a town in Tochigi Prefecture
   3. The neighborhoods of Anamizu and Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture
   4. a neighborhood of Higashiōsaka, Osaka Prefecture
   5. a neighborhood of Tosu, Saga Prefecture
   6. a neighborhood of Taga, Shiga Prefecture
   7. a neighborhood of Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture
   8. The neighborhoods of Yahatahigashi, Kitakyushu and of Setaka, in Fukuoka Prefecture
   9. a neighborhood of Takachiho, Miyagi Prefecture
3. a surname

河(かわ)内(うち) • (Kawauchi) ^{←かはうち (Kafauti)?}

1. Kawauchi (neighborhoods in Japan):
   1. a neighborhood of Ikata, Ehime Prefecture
   2. The neighborhoods of Shimanto and Tōyō, Kōchi Prefecture
   3. The neighborhoods of Tōkamachi and Kamihayashi, Niigata Prefecture
2. a surname

Sound change of compound of 河(かわ) (kawa, “river”) + 内(うち) (uchi, “inside”). Literally, “in the river”.

• (Tokyo) こーち [kóꜜòchì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ːt͡ɕi]

河内(こうち) • (kōchi) ^{←かふち (kafuti)?}

1. plain opened up in a river basin

河内(こうち) • (Kōchi) ^{←かふち (Kafuti)?}

1. Kōchi (places in Japan):
   1. a neighborhood of Niihama, Ehime Prefecture
   2. a neighborhood of Beppu, Ōita Prefecture
   3. The neighborhoods of Mimasaka and Kagamino, Okayama Prefecture
   4. a neighborhood of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture
   5. The neighborhoods of Shimizu, Shizuoka and of Shimoda, in Shizuoka Prefecture
   6. a neighborhood of Hamada, Shimane Prefecture
   7. a neighborhood of Okutama, Tokyo prefecture
   8. a neighborhood of Mugi, Tokushima Prefecture
   9. a neighborhood of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture
   10. The neighborhoods of Awaji and Kasai, Hyōgo Prefecture
   11. The neighborhoods of Fukui and of Ikeda, Minamiechizen and Wakasa, in Fukui Prefecture
   12. The neighborhoods of Toba and Minamiise, Mie Prefecture
   13. The neighborhoods of Kudamatsu and Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture
   14. a train station in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
2. a surname

Abbreviation of 河の内 (kawa no uchi, “inside of the river”).

• (Tokyo) かわのうち [kàwánóúchí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠β̞a̠no̞ɯ̟t͡ɕi]

河内(かわのうち) • (Kawanouchi) ^{←かはのうち (Kafanouti)?}

1. Kawanouchi (a neighborhood of Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture)

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 河內 / 河内 (Hénèi).

• IPA^(key): [ka̠da̠i]

河(か)内(だい) • (Kadai) 

1. Henei (former commandery of China to the north of Yellow River, now in Henan, China)

• https://jisho.org/word/河内