Hokkaido

See also: Hokkaidó and Hokkaidō

English

Alternative forms

• Hokkaidō

Etymology

From 北海道 (Hokkaidō ほっかいどう, “North Sea Circuit”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 北海 (pok-hój "Northern sea") + 道 (dáu "Circuit", a province-like administrative unit from Ming dynasty China).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ

Proper noun

Hokkaido

1. The second largest island of Japan, capital Sapporo

Coordinate terms

• Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku

Translations

a northern largest island of Japan, or a prefecture based in itself

• Afrikaans: Hokkaido
• Ainu: アィヌ・モシㇼ (aynu-mosir)
• Arabic: هُوكَايْدُو m (hukaydū)
• Armenian: Հոկայդո (Hokaydo)
• Azerbaijani: Hokkaydo
• Bashkir: Хокка́йдо (Xokkáydo)
• Belarusian: Хака́йда (Xakájda)
• Bulgarian: Хока́йдо (Hokájdo)
• Catalan: Hokkaidō
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北海道 (bak¹hoi²dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 北海道 (zh) (Běihǎidào)

  Min Dong: 北海道 (Báe̤k-hāi-dô̤)

  Wu: 北海道

• Czech: Hokkaidó (cs)
• Danish: Hokkaido
• Dutch: Hokkaido
• Esperanto: Hokajdo
• Finnish: Hokkaido (fi), Hokkaidō
• French: Hokkaido (fr), Hokkaïdo (fr)
• Galician: Hokkaido
• Georgian: ჰოკაიდო (hoḳaido)
• German: Hokkaido (de), Hokkaidō
• Greek: Χοκκάιντο (el) (Chokkáinto)
• Hebrew: הוקאידו
• Hindi: होक्काइडो (hokkāiḍo)
• Hungarian: Hokkaidó
• Icelandic: Hokkaidō
• Indonesian: Hokkaido
• Italian: Hokkaido (it), Hokkaidō
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 北海道 (ja) (ほっかいどう, Hokkaidō)
• Korean: 홋카이도 (ko) (Hotkaido), 북해도 (ko) (Bukhaedo) (北海道 (ko))
• Lao: ຮົກໄກໂດ (hok kai dō)
• Lithuanian: Hokaidas
• Macedonian: Хокаи́до n (Hokaído)
• Malay: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō
• Marathi: होक्काइदो m (hokkāido)
• Norwegian: Hokkaido
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Hokkaido
• Persian: هوکایدو
• Polish: Hokkaido (pl)
• Portuguese: Hokkaido (pt)
• Romanian: Hokkaido
• Russian: Хокка́йдо (ru) m (Xokkájdo)
• Samogitian: Huokaids
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хокаидо, Хоккаидо

  Roman: Hokaido, Hokkaido

• Slovak: Hokkaidó
• Slovene: Hokaido
• Spanish: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō
• Swedish: Hokkaido
• Tagalog: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō
• Tamil: ஹொக்கைடோ (hokkaiṭō)
• Thai: จังหวัดฮกไกโด (jangwàt hókgaidoh)
• Tibetan: ཧོ་ཁའི་དོ (ho kha'i do)
• Turkish: Hokkaido
• Ukrainian: Хокка́йдо (uk) m (Xokkájdo)
• Urdu: ہوکائیدو (hokkāīdo)
• Uyghur: خوككايدو ئارىلى (xokkaydo arili)
• Vietnamese: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō, Đảo Hokkaido, Đảo Hokkaidō
• Yiddish: האָקײַדאָ (hokaydo)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Hokkaido f

1. Hokkaido (an island and prefecture in northern Japan)