Etymology

hanamachi

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Today it means: A Japanese courtesan and geisha district. Full definition →

Japanese 花街
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from花街
  2. English todayhanamachi

Borrowed from Japanese 花街 (literally “flower street”); 花 (hana, “flower”) + 街 (machi, “town, neighborhood”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.