ソ連

Japanese

Kanji in this term
連
れん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Alternative spellings
蘇連 (dated) 蘇聯 (dated) ソ聯 (dated)

Etymology

Compare Chinese 蘇聯 / 苏联 (Sūlián), Korean 소련(蘇聯) (Soryeon), Vietnamese Liên Xô.

連 is a daiyōji replacing 聯.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ソれん [sóꜜrèǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [so̞ɾẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

ソ連(れん) • (Soren) 

1. clipping of ソビエト連邦 (Sobieto Renpō): (historical) Soviet Union (a former transcontinental country in Europe and Asia (1922–1991), now split into Russia and 14 other countries)
   • 1999 September 16, Motohiro Katou, “ヤコブの階(かい)段(だん) [Jacob’s Ladder]”, in [Ｑ.](キュー)[Ｅ.](イー)[Ｄ.](ディー) [証](しょう)[明](めい)[終](しゅう)[了](りょう) [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 90:

     ソ連(れん)が崩(ほう)壊(かい)して東(とう)西(ざい)冷(れい)戦(せん)は終(お)わったんだ

     Soren ga hōkai shite Tōzai Reisen wa owatta n da

     The Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended.

Synonyms

• 旧(きゅう)ソ連(れん) (Kyū Soren)
• ソ (So, abbreviation)
• 蘇(そ) (So, abbreviation, dated)
• ソ連(れん)邦(ぽう) (Sorenpō)
• 蘇(そ)聯(れん)邦(ぽう), ソ聯(れん)邦(ぽう) (Sorenpō, dated)
• 赤(せき)露(ろ) (Sekiro, dated)
• ソ連(れん)帝(てい)国(こく) (Sorenteikoku)