難波

Chinese

		disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	wave; ripple; storm wave; ripple; storm; surge
trad. (難波)		難	波
simp. (难波)		难	波

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 難波 (Nanba).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Nánbō

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄅㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): naan⁴ bo¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Nánbō
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄅㄛ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nanbo
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Nánbo
  - IPA ^(key): /nän˧˥ pwɔ˥/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: naan⁴ bo¹
  - Yale: nàahn bō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: naan⁴ bo¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: nan⁴ bo¹
  - IPA ^(key): /näːn˨˩ pɔː˥/

Proper noun

難波

Namba district in Osaka, Japan

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
難	波
なん > なに Grade: 6	は > わ Grade: 3
Irregular	goon

/nanipa/ → /naniɸa/ → /naniwa/

From Old Japanese 難波 (Nanipa), itself a corruption of 浪速 (Nami₁paya) or 浪花 (Nami₁pana).

Alternative forms

(old name for Osaka): 浪速, 浪花, 浪華

Proper noun

難波 (hiragana なにわ, rōmaji Naniwa, historical hiragana なには)

(archaic) an old placename for the region that is now known as 大阪 (Ōsaka, “Osaka”)
a surname

Derived terms

Derived terms

難波 (ナニワ)薔薇 (イバラ) (Naniwa ibara)
難波 (なにわ)江 (え) (Naniwa-e)
難波 (なにわ)潟 (がた) (Naniwa-gata)
難波 (なにわ)京 (きょう) (Naniwa-kyō)
難波 (なにわ)草 (ぐさ) (Naniwa-gusa)
難波 (なにわ)津 (づ) (Naniwa-zu)
難波 (なにわ)女 (め) (Naniwa me)

Proverbs

難波 (なにわ)の葦 (あし)は伊勢 (いせ)の浜 (はま)荻 (おぎ) (Naniwa no ashi wa Ise no hamaogi)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
難	波
なん Grade: 6	は > ば Grade: 3
goon

/nanipa/ → /naniɸa/ → /naɴba/ → /namba/

Shift from Naniwa above.[1]

Proper noun

難波 (hiragana なんば, rōmaji Nanba)

Short for 難波区 (Nanba-ku): the Namba district in Osaka
a surname

Derived terms

難波煮 (なんばに) (Nanba-ni)

References

1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Old Japanese

Etymology

Corruption of 浪速 (Nami₁paya, literally “swift waves”) or 浪花 (Nami₁pana, literally “wave flowers”).

Proper noun

難波 (Nanipa) (kana なには)

an old placename for the region that is now known as 大阪 (Ōsaka, “Osaka”)
- 720, Nihon Shoki (Emperor Jimmu, entry 4: [671 BCE], second month)
  皇師遂東、舳艫相接、方到難波之碕。因以名為浪速國、亦曰浪花、今謂難波訛也。
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

難波潟 (Nanipa-gata)
難波門 (Nanipa-to₁)
難波宮 (Nanipa-no₂-mi₁ya)
難波堀江 (Nanipa-poriye)

Descendants

Japanese: 難波, 浪速, 浪花, 浪華 (Naniwa)

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