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• Honshū

語源

From Japanese 本(ほん)州(しゅう) (Honshū, “main island”), from Middle Chinese 本 (pwón, “main”) +‎ 州 (t͡ʃjuw, “province”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈhɑnʃu/

固有名詞

Honshu

1. The main island of the archipelago of Japan.
   • 1980, National Geographic Society (U.S.), National geographic‎, →OCLC:

     A fascination with Hokkaido's wild country first drew the veterinarian to Abashiri, and he is a leading expert on the Ezo red fox. Like much of Hokkaido's wildlife, this fox is not found on Honshu.

   • 2009, Nicolas Tranter, The Languages of Japan and Korea:

     In the past, the Ainu (their selfname meaning 'person'), traditionally huntergatherers, occupied not only Hokkaido but also a considerable part of the island of Honshu until the middle the eighteenth century, […]

同意語

• Niphon (obsolete)

等位語

• Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku

派生語