昭和

㍼	U+337C, ㍼ SQUARE ERA NAME SYOUWA

CJK Compatibility

Chinese

		illustrious; manifest	mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm
simp. and trad. (昭和)		昭	和

昭和

On’yomi
- (Tokyo) しょーわ [shòówá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
- (Tokyo) しょーわ [shóꜜòwà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːɰᵝa̠]

昭和 (hiragana しょうわ, rōmaji Shōwa)

The Shōwa era; the Japanese era beginning on December 25 1926 and ending on January 7 1989.
昭 (しょう)和 (わ)元 (がん)年 (ねん)
shōwa gannen
the first year of Shōwa (1926 by the Gregorian calendar)

Not to be confused with 正和, the Shōwa era of 1312–1317, or with 承和, the Jōwa era of 834–848 (which may also be read Shōwa).

1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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