ソ連

Japanese

Kanji in this term
連
れん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Alternative forms

蘇連 (rare)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ソれん [sóꜜrèǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [so̞ɾẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

ソ連 (hiragana and katakana ソれん, rōmaji Soren)

Clipping of ソビエト連邦 (Sobieto Renpō, “Soviet Union”).
- 1999 September 16, Katou, Motohiro, “ヤコブの階たい段だん [Jacob’s Stairway]”, in Ｑ.Ｅ.Ｄ. 証しょう明めい終しゅう了りょう [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 90:
  
  ソ連 (れん)が崩 (ほう)壊 (かい)して東 (とう)西 (ざい)冷 (れい)戦 (せん)は終 (お)わったんだ
  Soren ga hōkaishite Tōzai Reisen wa owattanda
  It’s ‘cuz the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended

See also

蘇聯／苏联 (Sūlián)
소련 (Soryeon)
Liên Xô

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