白河

Chinese
 
white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
 river
simp. and trad.
(白河)		 白 河

Pronunciation

Proper noun

白河

  1. (～縣) Baihe (a county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China)
  2. (～市) Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima, Japan)
  3. (～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)

Noun

白河

  1. (literary) Milky Way

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
白 河
しら
Grade: 1		 かわ
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Compound of 白 (shira, “white”, compounding form) +‎ 河 (kawa, “river”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

白河 (hiragana しらかわ, rōmaji shirakawa)

  1. a river with clear water
  2. an area with small pebbles or sand spread out evenly, such as in a rock garden (from the visual similarity to a clear body of water)

Proper noun

白河 (hiragana しらかわ, rōmaji Shirakawa)

  1. a place name, such as that of Shirakawa City in Fukushima Prefecture
  2. a domain during the Edo period
  3. a surname

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
白 河
はく
Grade: 1		 が
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 白河 (MC bˠæk̚ ɦɑ).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

白河 (hiragana はくが, rōmaji Hakuga)

  1. Baihe County, Shaanxi Province, China[3]

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. Martin Collick, David P. Dutcher, Soichi Tanabe, and Minoru Kaneko. 2002. Kenkyusha's New College Japanese-English Dictionary fifth edition. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.
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