大和

Proper noun

 * 1)  an era during the, from 827 through 835 CE
 * 2)  an era during the, from 929 through 935 CE
 * 3)  an era during the reign of, from 1443 through 1453

Etymology 2
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Proper noun

 * 1) Yamato
 * 2)  Yamato Province, a former province in Japan, generally equivalent Nara Prefecture
 * 1)  Yamato Province, a former province in Japan, generally equivalent Nara Prefecture

Etymology 1


From older. From, from. Originally a geographical region in Nara, came to refer to all of Nara, and eventually to the country as a whole: Japan.

Chinese texts often used the word to refer to the people of the Japanese archipelago, possibly because they were actually smaller, or more likely as an insult. This character came to be used in early Japanese texts, such as the Man'yōshū poetry compilation, with a kun'yomi or native-Japanese reading of Yamato to refer to Japan in general.

This character also has an on'yomi or borrowed Chinese reading of wa. During the reign of Empress Genmei (707–715), the character with an original Chinese meaning of “midget, dwarf” was replaced with the  character that is also read wa, but instead has the more favorable meaning of “harmony”, in spellings of the native Japanese term Yamato. The character meaning “great” was then prefixed to this. The resulting kanji compound 大和 can also be read with a kun'yomi of Ōyamato (see below).

Proper noun

 * 1) a town in the Shikinoshimo district in the Yamato Province of Japan, generally equivalent to modern Tenri area
 * 2) one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
 * 3) the country of Japan
 * 4)  a World War II battleship
 * 1)  a World War II battleship

Etymology 2
From. Found in the , completed some time after 759 CE.

Compound of. The kanji spelling is an example of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
 * 2)  the country of Japan

Etymology 3
Appears to be a borrowing from.

Proper noun

 * 1) an era in history:
 * 2)  an era during the, from 827 through 835 CE
 * 3)  an era during the, from 929 through 935 CE
 * 4)  an era during the reign of, from 1443 through 1453
 * 5) a place:

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) Japan

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) Japan

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognate with mainland 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) Japan, mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa
 * 2) Satsuma, Japan

Usage notes

 * Because may also refer to Satsuma,  is used to clearly refer to mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) Japan

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) Japan