松山
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Chinese
| pine | mountain; hill | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (松山) | 松 | 山 | |
| simp. #(松山) | 松 | 山 | |
Etymology
- Songshan; Matsuyama
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 松山 (Matsuyama). In the case of Songshan, it replaced 錫口／锡口, the old name of the area.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
松山
- (～區) Songshan (a district of Taipei, Taiwan)
- (～市) Matsuyama (a city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan)
- Synonym of 松岳山 (“Mount Song'ak, North Korea”)
- ^傘圓概似^松山秀，^鴨綠應同^珥水長。 [Vietnamese Literary Sinitic, trad.]
- From: 《朝鮮正使前以扇贈故云》 ("The Korean Envoy Previously Gifted Me a Fan, so I Reply"), by Lê Quý Đôn to Hong Gye-hui, 1760
- Tản Viên khái tự Tùng Sơn tú, Áp Lục ưng đồng Nhị Thuỷ trường. [Sino-Vietnamese]
- The scenery of Tản Viên is majestic like your Song'ak, and the Yalu must be as long as our Red River.
References
- “Entry #34112”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 松 | 山 |
| まつ Grade: 4 |
やま Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | |
Proper noun
- Matsuyama (the capital city of Ehime Prefecture, Japan)
- a surname