Japanese Word Entry

過疎地域
Kana:かそちいき
Romaji:kasochiiki
Definition: underpopulated area, lightly-populated area

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Chinese characters used in this word

overdo, exceed, go beyond, error, pass, pass through, go across
Readings
Mandarin: ㄍㄨㄛˋ (guò), ㄍㄨㄛ (guō), ㄍㄨㄛ˙ (guo), ㄏㄨㄛˋ (huò)
Cantonese: gwo3
Japanese: カ (ka) / す.ぎる (sugiru)、 す.ごす (sugosu)、 あやま.ち (ayamachi)、 あやま.つ (ayamatsu)、 よぎ.る (yogiru)、 とが (toga)
Korean: 과 (gwa)
Vietnamese: quá, qua
Variants
Simplified Chinese form:

alienate, rough, neglect, shun, sparse, penetrate, careless, lax
Readings
Mandarin: ㄕㄨ (shū)
Cantonese: so1
Japanese: ソ (so)、 ショ (sho) / うと.い (utoi)、 うと.む (utomu)、 まば.ら (mabara)
Korean: 소 (so)
Vietnamese:
Variants
Simplified Chinese form:
Semantic variant form:

ground, earth, soil, region
Readings
Mandarin: ㄉㄧˋ (dì), ㄉㄜ˙ (de)
Cantonese: dei6
Japanese: チ (chi)、 ジ (ji) / つち (tsuchi)
Korean: 지 (ji)
Vietnamese: địa
Variants
Semantic variant form:

range, region, limits, stage, level, district, boundary, land
Readings
Mandarin: ㄩˋ (yù)
Cantonese: wik6
Japanese: イキ (iki) / さかい (sakai)
Korean: 역 (yeog)
Vietnamese: vực