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There are a small number of municipalities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana or katakana, together known as kana, rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. [1] Many city names written in kana have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the jōyō kanji.
Place names in Okinawa Prefecture are drawn from the traditional Ryukyuan languages. Many place names use the unique languages names, while other place names have both a method of reading the name in Japanese and a way to read the name in the traditional local language. The capital city Naha is Naafa in the Okinawan language.
Japan has many place names with unusual readings (難読地名, nandoku chimei) where the kanji are not read in the standard way. In many cases, even the Japanese need assistance in knowing the correct pronunciation unless they grew up in the area, especially when the kanji being used are not part of the 2,136 approved kanji on the Jōyō kanji list.
Japanese exonyms are the names of places in the Japanese language that differ from the name given in the place's dominant language.. While Japanese names of places that are not derived from the Chinese language generally tend to represent the endonym or the English exonym as phonetically accurately as possible, the Japanese terms for some place names are obscured, either because the name was ...
The first, 千 (chi), means "thousand" and the second, 葉 (ba) means "leaves". The name first appears as an ancient kuni no miyatsuko, or regional command office, as the Chiba Kuni no Miyatsuko (千葉国造). The name was adopted by a branch of the Taira clan, which moved to the area in present-day Chiba City in the late Heian period.
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WingStreet is the name used for Pizza Hut's chicken wing menu. [52] A Pizza Hut restaurant in Gillette, Wyoming with WingStreet signage. In 2003, Yum! launched WingStreet in combination with existing Pizza Hut franchises. [53] The chain predicted aggressive growth, adding more than 4,000 locations by 2010. [54]
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