May 7, 2010
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Placename Kanji: 紐育
紐育 ニューヨーク New York
A lot of countries and even cities that you normally see written with katakana actually have kanji names as well. I was curious to see if New York could be written in kanji, and sure enough, it can be.
Chinese, of course, uses kanji (hanzi) for everything, so the Chinese version could always be borrowed into Japanese in a pinch. In this case, however, New York has a slightly different name in Chinese: 紐約 (纽约 in simplified characters).
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