震源

Chinese

shake; shock; sign in trigram root; source; origin
simp. and trad.
(震源)

Pronunciation


Noun

震源

  1. (seismology) hypocenter

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しん
Grade: S
げん
Grade: 6
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

震源 (hiragana しんげん, rōmaji shingen)

  1. (seismology) hypocenter
     () () (けん) ()西 () (せい) (しん) (げん)とする () (しん)
    Chibaken hokusei o shingen to suru jishin
    an earthquake with a hypocenter in northwestern Chiba Prefecture

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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