羅府

Japanese
Kanji in this term
羅 府
ら
Grade: S		 ふ
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Etymology

羅 (orthographic borrowing from Cantonese 羅省枝利 (lo4 saang2 zi1 lei6)) +‎ 府 (fu, “prefecture”), coined by poet Funabashi Moshichi (船橋茂七) in 1894 for use in a Chinese poem (漢詩).[1]

Proper noun

羅(ら)府(ふ) • (Rafu) 

  1. (dated) Los Angeles (a large city in California, United States)

Synonyms

References
  1. 南加州日本人七十年史 [Japanese in Southern California: "A History of 70 Years"], 1960, page 45
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