羅府

Japanese

Kanji in this term
羅 府
ら
Grade: S 		ふ
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Etymology

羅 (orthographic borrowing from Cantonese 羅省技利 (lo4 saang2 gei6 lei6)) +‎ 府 (fu, “prefecture”), coined by poet Funabashi Moshichi (船橋茂七) in 1894 for use in a Chinese poem (漢詩).[1]

Proper noun

羅(ら)府(ふ) • (Rafu) 

  1. (dated) Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ 南加州日本人七十年史 [Japanese in Southern California: "A History of 70 Years"], 1960, page 45: “一八九四年六月、当時の文芸人船橋茂七が元祖。彼は天涯と号し漢詩に長じ、その作中に羅府竹校五首があつた。これが「羅府」の文字を使用した最初であり、「羅」の一字は支那人の羅省枝利[sic]（ロスアンゼルスの漢字音）からヒントを得たものである。”
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