Hiroshima

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/, /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/
• (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.
3. (figurative) 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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Japanese

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)