茨城県

Japanese

Kanji in this term
茨 城 県
いばら
Grade: 4 		き
Grade: 4 		けん
Grade: 3
kun'yomi kan'on
Alternative spelling
茨城縣 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 茨城 (Ibaraki) +‎ 県 (-ken, “prefecture”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いばらきけん [ìbárákíꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [iba̠ɾa̠kʲikẽ̞ɴ]
  • Often mispronounced as いばらぎけん (Ibaragi-ken).

Proper noun

茨(いばら)城(き)県(けん) • (Ibaraki-ken) 

  1. a prefecture in the 関東 (Kantō) region of Japan facing the Pacific Ocean; its capital city is 水戸 (Mito)

See also

prefectures of Japan: 日本edit

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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