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Type Settlement
Usage Japanese
Scripts 横須賀(Japanese Kanji) よこすか(Japanese Hiragana) ヨコスカ(Japanese Katakana)
Meaning & History
This is from a place in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture in the east of the country. The kanji that make up Yokosuka are 横 (ou, yoko) meaning "horizontal, side, sideways, width, woof", 須 (shu, su, subekara.ku, subeshi, hige, matsu, machi.iru, mato.meru) meaning "by all means, necessarily, ought" and 賀 (ga, ka) meaning "congratulations, joy."Yokosuka is also used as a surname.