小川

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (小川)		小	川

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xiǎochuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄔㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² cyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xiǎochuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄔㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Siǎochuan
    • Wade–Giles: Hsiao³-chʻuan¹
    • Yale: Syǎu-chwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sheauchuan
    • Palladius: Сяочуань (Sjaočuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² cyun¹
    • Yale: síu chyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² tsyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² qun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

小川

1. an orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 小川, Ogawa
2. (～鄉) Xiaochuan (a township in Maojian district, Shiyan, Hubei, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
小	川
お Grade: 1	かわ > がわ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 小(お) (o, “small”) + 川(かわ) (kawa, “river; stream”). The kawa changes to gawa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞ɡa̠β̞a̠]
• (Tokyo) おがわ [ògáwá] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

小(お)川(がわ) • (ogawa) ^{←をがは (wogafa)?}

1. brook, streamlet, stream, creek

Proper noun

小(お)川(がわ) • (Ogawa) 

1. a surname