Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

karafuto

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables: kara-fu-to
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Japanese name for Sakhalin (island in Russia)

name

a Japanese prefecture (Karafuto-chō) on the South Sakhalin, commonly called South Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945.

Etymology

From Japanese 樺太 (Karafuto).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 樺太

Questions

What does karafuto mean?: Japanese name for Sakhalin (island in Russia)
Where does karafuto come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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