真珠湾
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 真 | 珠 | 湾 |
| しん Grade: 3 |
しゅ > じゅ Grade: S |
わん Grade: S |
| on’yomi | ||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 眞珠灣 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
真珠 (shinju, “pearl”) + 湾 (wan, “harbor”). Calque of English Pearl Harbor.
Proper noun[edit]
- Pearl Harbor
- Synonym: パールハーバー (Pāru Hābā)
References[edit]
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 真 read as しん
- Japanese terms spelled with 珠 read as しゅ
- Japanese terms spelled with 湾 read as わん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms calqued from English
- Japanese terms derived from English
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms written with three Han script characters
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