Fukushima

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 福島(ふくしま) (Fukushima).

Proper noun

Fukushima (plural Fukushimas)

1. The capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
2. A prefecture of Japan.
   • 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 151:

     Fukushima prefecture, located just south of Miyagi, was also part of the ancestral lands of the Emishi.

3. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.
4. A surname from Japanese.

Translations

Fukushima, Japan

• Arabic: فُوكُوشِيمَا f (fukušīmā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 福島／福岛 (zh) (Fúdǎo)

• Czech: Fukušima (cs)
• Dutch: Fukushima
• Japanese: 福島 (ja) (ふくしま, Fukushima)
• Korean: 후쿠시마 (Hukusima)
• Marathi: फुकुशिमा (phukuśimā)
• Portuguese: Fukushima (pt)
• Russian: Фукуси́ма (ru) f (Fukusíma)
• Swedish: Fukushima
• Thai: ฟูกูชิมะ (fuu-guu-chí-má)
• Ukrainian: Фукусі́ма (uk) f (Fukusíma)

See also

• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi

Japanese

Romanization

Fukushima

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふくしま

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Fucuxima

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 福島 (Fukushima).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃĩ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃĩ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃi.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fu.kuˈʃi.mɐ/

Proper noun

Fukushima

1. Fukushima (a city and prefecture of Japan)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of Japanese 福島 (Fukushima).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /fukuˈʃima/ [fʊ.xʊˈʃiː.mɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /pukuˈʃima/ [pʊ.xʊˈʃiː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: Fu‧ku‧shi‧ma

Proper noun

Fukushima (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜓᜐ᜔ᜌᜒᜋ)

1. a surname from Japanese

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fukushima is the 137,318^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 36 individuals.