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Hiroshima
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Hiroshimą
English
en <dab!>
en
en Atomic bombings of + and Nagasaki
thumb|Hiroshima, after the Little Boy bomb was dropped.
Etymology
en ja - 広%島 ^ひろ%しま. en ja ひろしま
Pronunciation
en /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/ /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hiroshima.wav Southern England
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hiroshima2.wav Southern England
en /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/ /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/ US
Proper noun
en Q617375en prefecture in southwestern isl/Honshu c/Japan.
en Q34664en capital city pref/Hiroshima c/Japan ; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
en 1945-08-06 w:Harry S. Truman VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima https://web.archive.org/web/20211102003246/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_A8LPtuX5c 02 November 2021 w:Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum National Archives Identifier: 23630 0:18 A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
en Brad Lendon Hiroshima after 75 years: Walking the path of the atomic bomb w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-75th-anniversary-intl-hnk 2020-08-06 This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put together. It’s the assembly point for the dawning of the atomic age. https://web.archive.org/web/20250730185640/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-75th-anniversary-intl-hnk/ 30 July 2025
en Reuters Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/tech/chipmaking-japan-china-g7 2023-05-18 Kishida told the executives, including those from Micron Technology Inc (MU), Intel Corp (INTC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSM) (TSMC), that stabilizing supply chains would be a topic of discussion at the G7 talks in the western city of Hiroshima. https://web.archive.org/web/20251118173332/https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/tech/chipmaking-japan-china-g7 18 November 2025
The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
en VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 2004 Collateral Stuart Beattie DreamWorks Pictures
Derived terms
en hiroshimaite Hiroshiman hiroshimite
Translations
a city in Honshu, Japan
Arabic: ar هِيرُوشِيمَا f hirušīmā
Armenian: hy Հիրոսիմա
Bulgarian: bg Хироши́ма f
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Гіроші́ма f
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 廣島
Mandarin: cmn 廣島
Czech: cs Hirošima f
Dutch: nl Hiroshima
Esperanto: eo Hiroŝimo
Finnish: fi Hiroshima
German: de Hiroschima
Greek: el Χιροσίμα f
Hindi: hi हिरोशिमा m
Hungarian: hu Hirosima
Italian: it Hiroshima, it Iroscima
Japanese: ja 広島 ひろしま, Hiroshima
Korean: ko ^히로시마
Latin: la Hiroshima f
Maltese: mt Hiroshima, mt Ħiroxima
Marathi: mr हिरोशिमा
Mongolian: mn Хирошима
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira هیروشیما hirošimâ
Polish: pl Hiroszima f
Portuguese: pt Hiroxima
Romanian: ro Hiroshima
Russian: ru Хироси́ма f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Хироши́ма f
Latin: sh Hirošíma f
Tamil: ta ஹிரோஷிமா
Thai: th ฮิโรชิมะ
Turkish: tr Hiroşima
Uyghur: ug خىروشىما
Trivia
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was the uranium-fired Little Boy. Three days later, Nagasaki was nuked. These remain, as of 2024, the only time nuclear bombs have actually been fired off in anger.
Noun
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en figuratively A catastrophe.
en 2011 April Michael Joseph Gross A Declaration of Cyber-War Vanity Fair Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.
See also
en Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Historical events
German
Alternative forms
de Hiroschima
Pronunciation
de /hiˈʁɔʃima/ rare /hiʁoˈʃiːma/
de De-Hiroshima.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de De-Hiroshima2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de Hiroshima Q617375,Q34664
Japanese
Romanization
ひろしま
Polish
Etymology
pl :ubor en:Hiroshima + 1
Pronunciation
hirosima,hiroszima Hi.ro.shi.ma
Proper noun
f hiroshimski
pl Hiroszima:
pl Hiroshima Q617375,Q34664 ##
Declension
s
Further reading
pl exonyms
Portuguese
Pronunciation
[o:ò] +,riroshima
Proper noun
f
pt Hiroxima:
pt Hiroshima Q617375,Q34664 ##