湘南

Chinese

		name of a river; Hunan province (abbrev.)	south
simp. and trad. (湘南)		湘	南

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xiāngnán

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤ ㄋㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xiāngnán
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤ ㄋㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Siangnán
    • Wade–Giles: Hsiang¹-nan²
    • Yale: Syāng-nán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiangnan
    • Palladius: Сяннань (Sjannanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ nän³⁵/

Proper noun

湘南

1. southern Hunan

Japanese

Etymology

相模(さがみの)国(くに) (Sagami no kuni, “Sagami Province, shortened to 相”) + 南(なん) (nan, “southern part”). The use of 湘 instead of 相 is influenced by the name of Chinese river.

Kanji in this term
湘	南
しょう Jinmeiyō	なん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Proper noun

湘(しょう)南(なん) • (Shōnan) 

1. Shōnan, a region along the coast of Sagami Bay