剣橋

Japanese

Kanji in this term
剣	橋
けん Grade: S (ateji)	ブリッジ Grade: 3
kan'on	irregular

Alternative spelling
劍橋 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

剣 is ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)), and 橋 means bridge.

For pronunciation and definitions of 剣橋 – see the following entry.

【ケンブリッジ】 [proper noun] Cambridge (a city and local government district with borough status of Cambridgeshire, England, famous for its university) Cambridge (University of Cambridge) Cambridge (a city, the county seat of Dorchester County, Maryland, United States) Cambridge (a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, famous for being the location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Cambridge (a city, the county seat of Isanti County, Minnesota, United States) Cambridge (a city, the county seat of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States) Cambridge (a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) Cambridge (a town in Waikato, New Zealand)

(This term, 剣橋, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

References

• “〈剣橋〉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026