湘南

Chinese

		name of a river; Hunan province (abbrev.)	south
simp. and trad. (湘南)		湘	南

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xiāngnán

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤㄋㄢˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xiāngnán
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤㄋㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Siangnán
  - Wade–Giles: Hsiang¹-nan²
  - Yale: Syāng-nán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiangnan
  - Palladius: Сяннань (Sjannanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ nän³⁵/

Proper noun

湘南

southern Hunan

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 湘南 (Shōnan).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xiāngnán

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤㄋㄢˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xiāngnán
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤㄋㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Siangnán
  - Wade–Giles: Hsiang¹-nan²
  - Yale: Syāng-nán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiangnan
  - Palladius: Сяннань (Sjannanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ nän³⁵/

Proper noun

湘南

Shōnan, a region along the coast of Sagami Bay

Japanese

Etymology

相模(さがみの)国(くに) (Sagami no kuni, “Sagami Province, shortened to 相”) + 南(なん) (nan, “southern part”). The use of 湘 instead of 相 is influenced by the name of Chinese river. ^[1]

Kanji in this term
湘	南
しょう Jinmeiyō	なん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Proper noun

湘(しょう)南(なん) • (Shōnan)

Shōnan, a region along the coast of Sagami Bay

References

^ “湘南”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

[DDJS-1] “湘南”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

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