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The capital city of Shiga Prefecture in Japan, on the shore of Lake Biwa.
"They stopped in Otsu to see the lake before heading to Kyoto."
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Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA Japanese city; the word also appears in linguistics for an old vowel classification.
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Etymology
From Japanese 乙 (otsu), meaning "second" — used in older classification systems.