和田

Chinese

		mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm	field; farm
simp. and trad. (和田)		和	田

和田市艾提卡大巴扎

Etymology

Homophonous replacement for 和闐／和阗 (Hétián) from 1959; Uyghur خوتەن (xoten).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Hétián

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴ tin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Hétián
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Hétián
    • Wade–Giles: Ho²-tʻien²
    • Yale: Hé-tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hertyan
    • Palladius: Хэтянь (Xɛtjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁴ tin⁴
    • Yale: wòh tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴ tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁴ tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹ tʰiːn²¹/

Proper noun

和田

1. (～河) Hotan River (a river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)
2. (～地區) Hotan (a prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China)
3. (～市) Hotan (a county-level city of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China)
4. (～縣) Hotan (a county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China)

Synonyms

• 和闐／和阗 (Hétián)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
和	田
わ Grade: 3	た > だ Grade: 1
jūbakoyomi

From 和(わ) (wa, “peace, harmony, tranquillity, serenity”) + 田(た) (ta, “field, paddy”); literally, “tranquil field”.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) わだ [wàdá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [β̞a̠da̠]

Proper noun

和(わ)田(だ) • (Wada) 

1. a surname
2. Wada (multiple neighborhoods in Japan):
   1. a neighborhood of Shichinohe, Kamikita district, Aomori Prefecture
   2. a neighborhood of Shika, Hakui district, Ishikawa Prefecture
   3. a neighborhood of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture
   4. a neighborhood of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture
   5. The neighborhoods of Kumatori, Sennan district and of Minami, Sakai, in Osaka Prefecture
   6. The neighborhoods of Akaiwa, Tamano and Mimasaka, of Kibichūō, Kaga district and of Kagamino, Tomata district, in Okayama Prefecture
   7. a neighborhood of Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture
   8. a neighborhood of Hodogaya, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
   9. a neighborhood of Ibigawa, Ibi district, Gifu Prefecture
   10. The neighborhoods of Maizuru and of Kyōtanba, Funai district, in Kyoto Prefecture
   11. The neighborhoods of Sukumo, of Kitagawa, Aki district, of Tosa, Tosa district, and of Ōtoyo, Nagaoka district, in Kōchi Prefecture
   12. a neighborhood of Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture
   13. The neighborhoods of Itō, Kakegawa, Kikugawa and Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture
   14. a neighborhood of Ōnan, Ōchi district, Shimane Prefecture
   15. The neighborhoods of Sanmu, Narita and Yotsukaidō and of Sakae, Inba district, in Chiba Prefecture
   16. The neighborhoods of Suginami and Tama, Tokyo prefecture
   17. a neighborhood of Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture
   18. The neighborhoods of Takaoka and Toyama, Toyama Prefecture
   19. The neighborhoods of Komoro and Matsumoto and of Nagawa, Chīsagata district, in Nagano Prefecture
   20. The neighborhoods of Sakurai and of Tenkawa, Yoshino district, in Nara Prefecture
   21. The neighborhoods of Kōnan, Niigata and of Uonuma, in Niigata Prefecture
   22. The neighborhoods of Sasayama, of Inami, Kako district and of Shin'onsen, Mikata district, in Hyōgo Prefecture
   23. a neighborhood of Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture
   24. The neighborhoods of Fukui, of Takahama, Ōi district and of Mihama, Mikata district, in Fukui Prefecture
   25. The neighborhoods of Minami, Fukuoka and of Sasaguri, Kasuya district, in Fukuoka Prefecture
   26. The neighborhoods of Aizuwakamatsu, Sukagawa and Sōma and of Shirasawa, Adachi district, in Fukushima Prefecture
   27. a neighborhood of Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture
   28. a neighborhood of Suōōshima, Ōshima district, Yamaguchi Prefecture
   29. a neighborhood of Minobu, Minamikoma district, Yamanashi Prefecture
   30. The neighborhoods of Tanabe and Wakayama, of Hirogawa, Arida district and of Mihama, Hidaka district, in Wakayama Prefecture

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
和	田
ホータン
Grade: 3	Grade: 1
irregular

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 和田 (Hétián).

Proper noun

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

【ホータン】 [proper noun] Hotan (a prefecture, county, and county-level city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China) Alternative spelling 和闐

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