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): [ka̠na̠za̠ɰᵝa̠]

Proper noun

金(かな)沢(ざわ) • (Kanazawa) ^{←かなざは (kanazafa)^?}

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

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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Further reading

金沢 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

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