# Talk:Utoro, Uji

I can't access the Hicks title given as the reference for the "hollow" meaning.  Presumably this would be a shift from "standard" Japanese term wikt:うつろ#Japanese (utsuro).  Does Hicks mention utsuro at all?
There are dialectal variations in other places that show a similar shift, such as utsurogi becoming utorogi and shifting even further to utōgi. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 21:48, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

He does not. What he says is this:
It is called Utoro, a name so unusual that it is sometimes assumed to be Korean, especially as, uniquely among [Japanese] place names,  [sic] no Chinese characters are used for it, but it is apparently local dialect meaning 'a hollow'. CurryTime7-24 (talk) 06:53, 5 October 2023 (UTC)