姫川

Japanese

Kanji in this term
姫	川
ひめ Grade: S	かわ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Kanji in this term
姫	川
ひめ Grade: S	かわ > がわ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 姫(ひめ) (hime-, “lady; small, little”) + 川(かわ) (kawa, “river”). Literally, “little river”. The kawa changes to gawa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ひめ​かわ [hìméꜜkàwà] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [çime̞ka̠ɰᵝa̠]

• (Tokyo) ひめ​がわ [hìméꜜgàwà] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [çime̞ɡa̠ɰᵝa̠]

Proper noun

姫(ひめ)川(かわ) • (Himekawa) 

1. Hime River (a river in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan)
2. Himekawa (several places in Japan):
   1. A neighborhood of Echizen, Fukui Prefecture.
   2. A neighborhood of Otobe, Hokkaido prefecture.
   3. A neighborhood and station in Mori, Hokkaido prefecture.
   4. A station in Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture.
3. a surname

姫(ひめ)川(がわ) • (Himegawa) 

1. Hime River (a river in Nagano Prefecture and Niigata Prefecture, Japan)
2. Hime River (a river in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)
3. Himegawa (a neighborhood of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan)