金沢

See also: 金澤 and 金泽

Japanese

Kanji in this term
金 沢
かな
Grade: 1 		さわ > ざわ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
金澤 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 金(かな) (kana, “metal; gold”, combining form of stand-alone reading kane) + 沢(さわ) (sawa, “marsh, swamp; mountain brook or stream”). The sawa changes to zawa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) かなざわ [kànáꜜzàwà] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠na̠za̠β̞a̠]

Proper noun

金(かな)沢(ざわ) • (Kanazawa) ←かなざは (Kanazafa)?

  1. Kanazawa (the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan)
  2. Kanazawa (a ward of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)
  3. a surname

References

  1. ^ 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

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