歌舞伎町

Chinese

		kabuki	raised path between fields
trad. (歌舞伎町)		歌舞伎	町
simp. #(歌舞伎町)		歌舞伎	町

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 歌(か)舞(ぶ)伎(き)町(ちょう) (Kabukichō).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Gēwǔjì Tǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ ㄨˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄊㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): go¹ mou⁵ gei⁶ ding¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Gēwǔjì Tǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ ㄨˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄊㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Gewǔjì Tǐng
    • Wade–Giles: Ko¹-wu³-chi⁴ Tʻing³
    • Yale: Gē-wǔ-jì Tǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gewuujih Tiing
    • Palladius: Гэуцзи Тин (Gɛuczi Tin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵ u²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi⁵¹ tʰiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: go¹ mou⁵ gei⁶ ding¹
    • Yale: gō móuh geih dīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: go¹ mou⁵ gei⁶ ding¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: go¹ mou⁵ géi⁶ ding¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔː⁵⁵ mou̯¹³ kei̯²² tɪŋ⁵⁵/

Proper noun

歌舞伎町

1. Kabukicho (a district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan)

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
歌	舞	伎	町
か Grade: 2	ぶ Grade: S	き Grade: S	ちょう Grade: 1
on’yomi

歌舞伎 +‎ 町. From being a district (町 (“town”)) that developed around a proposed kabuki (歌舞伎) theatre, although the theatre was never built.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟ᵝkʲi̥t͡ɕo̞ː]

Proper noun

歌(か)舞(ぶ)伎(き)町(ちょう) • (Kabukichō) ^{←かぶきちやう (kabukityau)?}

1. Kabukicho (a district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan)

Descendants

• → English: Kabukicho

Further reading

• Kabukichō, Tokyo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia