名山

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Chinese

		name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place	mountain; hill
trad. (名山)		名	山
simp. ^#(名山)		名	山
anagram		山名

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): míngshān

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ saan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: míngshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: míngshan
  - Wade–Giles: ming²-shan¹
  - Yale: míng-shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mingshan
  - Palladius: миншань (minšanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ming⁴ saan¹
  - Yale: mìhng sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴ saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴ san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹ saːn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: mjieng srean

Rime
Character	名	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	清 (121)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	武并切	所閒切
Baxter	mjieng	srean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇŋ/	/ʃˠɛn/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛŋ/	/ʃᵚæn/
Shao Rongfen	/miæŋ/	/ʃæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miajŋ/	/ʂəɨn/
Li Rong	/miɛŋ/	/ʃɛn/
Wang Li	/mĭɛŋ/	/ʃæn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛŋ/	/ʂăn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ming⁴	saan¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.meŋ s-ŋrar/

(Zhengzhang): /*meŋ sreːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	名	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	míng	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ mjieng ›	‹ srɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*C.meŋ/	/*s-ŋrar/
English	name	mountain, hill
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be -t or -p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	名	山
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9178	11052
Phonetic component	名	山
Rime group	耕	元
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	名	山
Old Chinese	/*meŋ/	/*sreːn/

Noun

名山

famous mountain

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (名山):

→ Japanese: 名山(めいざん) (meizan)
→ Korean: 명산(名山) (myeongsan)

Proper noun

名山

(～區, formerly ～縣) Mingshan (a district and former county of Ya'an, Sichuan, China)

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

名山

Kanji in this term
名	山
めい Grade: 1	ざん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) めーざん (Atamadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

名(めい)山(ざん) • (meizan) ^{←めいざん (meizan)^?}

famous mountain
『日本(にほん)百(ひゃく)名山(めいざん)』
“Nihon Hyaku-meizan”
100 Famous Japanese Mountains

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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