# 和田
## Chinese

* 和田 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 和田 (Cantonese)
* Hotan (Eastern Min)
* Hotan Tē-khu (Southern Min)

### Etymology

Homophonous replacement for 和闐／和阗 (Hétián) from 1959; Uyghur خوتەن (xoten).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Hétián
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wo$^4$ tin$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Hétián
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Hétián
*** Wade–Giles: Ho$^2$-tʻien$^2$
*** Yale: Hé-tyán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Hertyan
*** Palladius: Хэтянь (Xɛtjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /xɤ³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wo$^4$ tin$^4$
*** Yale: wòh tìhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wo$^4$ tin$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wo$^4$ tin$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɔː²¹ tʰiːn²¹/

### Proper noun

和田
* (～河) Hotan River (a river in Xinjiang, China)
* (～地區) Hotan (a prefecture of Xinjiang, China)
* (～市) Hotan (a county-level city in Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China)
* (～縣) Hotan (a county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China)

#### Synonyms

* 和闐／和阗 (Hétián)

## Japanese
### Etymology 1

Kanji in this term :
| 和 | 田 |
| わ Grade: 3 | た > だ Grade: 1 |
| jūbakoyomi ||
和(わ) (wa) + 田(た) (ta, literally “tranquil field”)

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) わだ [wàdá] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [β̞a̠da̠]

#### Proper noun

和(わ)田(だ) • (Wada)
* a surname
* Wada (multiple neighborhoods in Japan):
** A neighborhood of Shichinohe, Kamikita district, Aomori Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Shika, Hakui district, Ishikawa Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Kumatori, Sennan district and of Minami, Sakai, in Osaka Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Akaiwa, Tamano and Mimasaka, of Kibichūō, Kaga district and of Kagamino, Tomata district, in Okayama Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Hodogaya, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Ibigawa, Ibi district, Gifu Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Maizuru and of Kyōtanba, Funai district, in Kyoto Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Sukumo, of Kitagawa, Aki district, of Tosa, Tosa district, and of Ōtoyo, Nagaoka district, in Kōchi Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Itō, Kakegawa, Kikugawa and Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Ōnan, Ōchi district, Shimane Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Sanmu, Narita and Yotsukaidō and of Sakae, Inba district, in Chiba Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Suginami and Tama, Tokyo prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Takaoka and Toyama, Toyama Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Komoro and Matsumoto and of Nagawa, Chīsagata district, in Nagano Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Sakurai and of Tenkawa, Yoshino district, in Nara Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Kōnan, Niigata and of Uonuma, in Niigata Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Sasayama, of Inami, Kako district and of Shin'onsen, Mikata district, in Hyōgo Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Fukui, of Takahama, Ōi district and of Mihama, Mikata district, in Fukui Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Minami, Fukuoka and of Sasaguri, Kasuya district, in Fukuoka Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Aizuwakamatsu, Sukagawa and Sōma and of Shirasawa, Adachi district, in Fukushima Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Suōōshima, Ōshima district, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
** A neighborhood of Minobu, Minamikoma district, Yamanashi Prefecture.
** The neighborhoods of Tanabe and Wakayama, of Hirogawa, Arida district and of Mihama, Hidaka district, in Wakayama Prefecture.

### Etymology 2

Kanji in this term :
| 和 | 田 |
| ホータン ||
| Grade: 3 | Grade: 1 |
| irregular ||
Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 和田 (Hétián).

#### Proper noun

For pronunciation and definitions of 和田 – see the following entry. :
| 【ホータン】 | [proper noun] Hotan (a prefecture, county, and county-level city in Xinjiang, China). Alternative spelling 和闐 |
(This term, 和田, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :