Hiroshima

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hiːɹoʊˈʃiːmə/, /həˈɹəʊʃɪmə/

Proper noun

Hiroshima

A city in Honshu, Japan, devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
(figuratively) catastrophe.
- 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, Vanity Fair:
  Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.

Translations

a city in Honshu, Japan

Arabic: هِيرُوشِيمَا‎‎ f (hirušīmā)
Armenian: Հիրոսիմա (Hirosima)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 廣島, 广岛 (gwong²dou²)

Mandarin: 廣島 (zh), 广岛 (zh) (Guǎngdǎo)
Czech: Hirošima (cs) f
Dutch: Hiroshima
Esperanto: Hiroŝimo
Finnish: Hiroshima (fi)
German: Hiroschima
Greek: Χιροσίμα (el) f (Chirosíma)
Hungarian: Hirosima (hu)
Italian: Hiroshima (it), Iroscima
Japanese: 広島 (ja) (ひろしま, Hiroshima)

Korean: 히로시마 (Hirosima)
Maltese: Hiroshima, Ħiroxima
Marathi: हिरोशिमा (hirośimā)
Persian: هیروشیما‎‎ (hirošimâ)
Portuguese: Hiroshima (pt)
Russian: Хироси́ма (ru) f (Xirosíma)
Rusyn: Гіроші́ма f (Hirošíma)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Хироши́ма f

Roman: Hirošíma (sh) f
Thai: ฮิโระชิมะ (híróchímá)
Turkish: Hiroşima (tr)
Uyghur: خىروشىما‎‎ (xiroshima)

Japanese

Romanization

Hiroshima

Rōmaji transcription of ひろしま

Portuguese

Proper noun

Hiroshima f

Hiroshima (a city and prefecture of Chūgoku, Japan)

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