熊本県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
熊	本	県
くま Grade: 4	もと Grade: 1	けん Grade: 3
kun'yomi		kan'on

Alternative spelling
熊本縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 熊本 (Kumamoto) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) くまもとけん [kùmámótóꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])^[1]
IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ma̠mo̞to̞kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

熊(くま)本(もと)県(けん) • (Kumamoto-ken)

a prefecture in Japan on the central part of 九州 (Kyūshū, “Kyushu”); its capital city is also 熊本 (Kumamoto)

See also

肥後(ひご) (Higo)

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