Hiroshima

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/, /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/, /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/

Proper noun

Hiroshima

1. A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
2. The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
   • 1945 August 6, Truman, Harry S., VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 23630, 0:18 from the start:

     A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

3. (figuratively) catastrophe.
   • 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, Vanity Fair:

   Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

4. The 1945 atomic bombing of the city of the same name.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Translations

a city in Honshu, Japan

• Arabic: هِيرُوشِيمَا‎ f (hirušīmā)
• Armenian: Հիրոսիմա (Hirosima)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣島, 广岛 (gwong²dou²)

  Mandarin: 廣島 (zh), 广岛 (zh) (Guǎngdǎo)

• Czech: Hirošima (cs) f
• Dutch: Hiroshima
• Esperanto: Hiroŝimo
• Finnish: Hiroshima (fi)
• German: Hiroschima
• Greek: Χιροσίμα (el) f (Chirosíma)
• Hindi: हिरोशिमा m (hirośimā)
• Hungarian: Hirosima (hu)
• Italian: Hiroshima (it), Iroscima
• Japanese: 広島 (ja) (ひろしま, Hiroshima)

• Korean: 히로시마 (Hirosima)
• Maltese: Hiroshima, Ħiroxima
• Marathi: हिरोशिमा (hirośimā)
• Persian: هیروشیما‎ (hirošimâ)
• Portuguese: Hiroshima (pt)
• Russian: Хироси́ма (ru) f (Xirosíma)
• Rusyn: Гіроші́ма f (Hirošíma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хироши́ма f

  Roman: Hirošíma (sh) f

• Thai: ฮิโระชิมะ (híróchímá)
• Turkish: Hiroşima (tr)
• Uyghur: خىروشىما‎ (xiroshima)

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Romanization

Hiroshima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひろしま

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Hiroshima f

1. Hiroshima (a prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan)
2. Hiroshima (the capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)