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 Middle Chinese 北海 (pok-hój "Northern sea") + 道 (dáu "Circuit", a province-like administrative unit from Ming dynasty China).

Proper noun

Hokkaido

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・モシリ (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)

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 (hōkkāiḍō)
Hungarian: Hokkaidó
Icelandic: Hokkaidō
Indonesian: Hokkaido
Italian: Hokkaido (it), Hokkaidō

Japanese: 北海道 (ja) (ほっかいどう, Hokkaidō)
Korean: 홋카이도 (ko) (Hotkaido), 북해도 (ko) (Bukhaedo) (北海道 (ko))
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)
Vietnamese: Hokkaido, Hokkaidō, Đảo Hokkaido, Đảo Hokkaidō
Yiddish: האָקײַדאָ‎ (hokaydo)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Hokkaido f

Hokkaido (an island and prefecture in northern Japan)

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