川口

Chinese

		river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)	mouth; (a measure word, for people, livestock or utensils)
simp. and trad. (川口)		川	口

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 川口 (Kawaguchi).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Chuānkǒu

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢㄎㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹ hau²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Chuānkǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢㄎㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Chuankǒu
  - Wade–Giles: Chʻuan¹-kʻou³
  - Yale: Chwān-kǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chuankoou
  - Palladius: Чуанькоу (Čuanʹkou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyun¹ hau²
  - Yale: chyūn háu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹ hau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: qun¹ heo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ hɐu̯³⁵/

Proper noun

川口

(～市) Kawaguchi (a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
川	口
かわ Grade: 1	くち > ぐち Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
河口

Etymology

Compound of 川(かわ) (kawa, “river”) + 口(くち) (kuchi, “mouth”). The kuchi changes to guchi as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かわぐち [kàwáꜜgùchì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠β̞a̠ɡɯ̟t͡ɕi]

Noun

川(かわ)口(ぐち) • (kawaguchi) ^{←かはぐち (kafaguti)^?}

mouth of river, estuary

Proper noun

川(かわ)口(ぐち) • (Kawaguchi)

川口市: Kawaguchi (a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan)
a surname

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN