"大阪" meaning in Japanese

See 大阪 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: [o̞ːsa̠ka̠] Forms: 大阪 [canonical] (ruby: (おお), (さか)), Ōsaka [romanization], Ofosaka [romanization], おほさか [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: Compound of 大 (ō, “large, great”) + 阪 (saka, “hill”). The geographical area was historically known as 小坂 (Wosaka → Osaka, literally “little hill”) and was renamed to mean literally a “large hill”. Originally spelled as 大坂 until the early Meiji period, possibly for some superstitious reason. Etymology templates: {{wp|lang=ja}}, {{wp|Osaka}}, {{com|ja|大|阪|t1=large, great|t2=hill|tr1=ō|tr2=saka}} 大 (ō, “large, great”) + 阪 (saka, “hill”) Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper|おおさか|hhira=おほさか}} 大(おお)阪(さか) • (Ōsaka) ^(←おほさか (Ofosaka)?)
  1. a placename, especially:
    Short for 大阪府 (Ōsaka-fu): a prefecture in the 近畿 (Kinki) region of Japan facing the Seto Inland Sea
    Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: 大阪府 (extra: (Ōsaka-fu): a prefecture in the 近畿 (Kinki) region of Japan facing the Seto Inland Sea) Categories (place): Places in Japan, Prefectures of Japan
    Sense id: en-大阪-ja-name-N~aced8H Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese terms with rendaku Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 7 3 7 3 36 22 6 10 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 2 7 2 37 26 4 13 4 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 46 28 6 14 6 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 39 27 8 18 8 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 43 31 8 10 8 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 39 20 15 11 15 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 45 26 8 12 8 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 42 32 6 14 6 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 54 37 9 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with rendaku: 60 17 6 10 6
  2. a placename, especially:
    Short for 大阪市 (Ōsaka-shi): the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan
    Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: 大阪市 (extra: (Ōsaka-shi): the capital city of Osaka Prefecture, Japan) Categories (place): Cities in Japan, Cities in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, Places in Japan, Places in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
    Sense id: en-大阪-ja-name-kdaq7tTU Categories (other): Prefectural capitals of Japan
  3. a surname
    Sense id: en-大阪-ja-name-v2O7m9sM Categories (other): Japanese surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 大阪の食い倒れ (Ōsaka no kuidaore) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (), (だお))
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: 大阪浅漬け (Ōsaka asazuke) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (あさ), ()), 大阪切り漬け (Ōsaka kirizuke) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (), ()), 大阪港 (Ōsaka-kō) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (こう)), 大阪狭山 (Ōsakasayama) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (), (やま)), 大阪事件 (Ōsaka jiken) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (), (けん)), 大阪城 (Ōsaka-jō) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (じょう)), 大阪証券取引所 (Ōsaka shōken torihikijo) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (しょう), (けん), (とり), (ひき), (じょ)), 大阪鮨 (Ōsaka-zushi) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (ずし)), 大阪相撲 (Ōsaka-zumō) (ruby: (おお), (さか), 相撲(ずもう)), 大阪都 (Ōsaka-to) (ruby: (おお), (さか), ()), 大阪撫子 (Ōsaka nadeshiko) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (なでし), ()), 大阪俄 (Ōsaka niwaka) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (にわか)), 大阪場所 (Ōsaka basho) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (), (しょ)), 大阪平野 (Ōsaka heiya) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (へい), ()), 大阪弁 (Ōsaka-ben) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (べん)), 大阪落語 (Ōsaka rakugo) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (らく), ()), 大阪-湾 (Ōsaka-wan) (ruby: (おお), (さか), (わん)), 東大阪 (Higashiōsaka) (ruby: (ひがし), (おお), (さか))

Proper name

IPA: [o̞ːza̠ka̠] Forms: 大阪 [canonical] (ruby: (おお), (ざか)), Ōzaka [romanization], Ofozaka [romanization], おほざか [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: The saka changes to zaka as an instance of rendaku (連濁).. Etymology templates: {{rendaku2|saka|zaka|sort=おおさか}} The saka changes to zaka as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper|おおざか|hhira=おほざか}} 大(おお)阪(ざか) • (Ōzaka) ^(←おほざか (Ofozaka)?)
  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of 大阪 (Ōsaka, placename) Tags: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Alternative form of: 大阪 (extra: Ōsaka, placename)
    Sense id: en-大阪-ja-name-ygzwb4zL Categories (other): Forms linking to themselves
  2. a surname
    Sense id: en-大阪-ja-name-v2O7m9sM1 Categories (other): Japanese surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 阪神 (Hanshin) (ruby: (はん), (しん)) (english: Osaka and Kobe), 京阪 (Keihan) (ruby: (けい), (はん)) (english: Kyoto and Osaka) Coordinate_terms: 逢坂 (Ōsaka) (ruby: (おう), (さか)), 難波 (Naniwa) (ruby: (なに), ())
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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}

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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a surname"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[o̞ːza̠ka̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "大阪"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 大阪 meaning in Japanese (9.2kB)

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  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "大阪"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "大阪",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "大阪"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "大阪",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "大阪"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "大阪",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "大阪"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "大阪",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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