香川県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
香	川	県
か Grade: 4	かわ > がわ Grade: 1	けん Grade: 3
kun'yomi		kan'on

Alternative spelling
香川縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 香川 (Kagawa) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かがわけん [kàgáwáꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠ɡa̠β̞a̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

香(か)川(がわ)県(けん) • (Kagawa-ken) ^{←かがはけん (Kagafaken)^?}

a prefecture of Japan in the northeastern part of 四国 (Shikoku) facing the Seto Inland Sea; its capital city is 高松 (Takamatsu)

See also

讃岐(さぬき) (Sanuki)

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