Place names・Okinawa

HoemoiHoemoi (Bin)

Also known as: 保栄茂

A place name in Tomigusuku written with three characters yet read "Bin." Famous as one of Okinawa's most notoriously hard-to-read place names, it is a striking example of the gap between a name's appearance and its reading.

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